Movies

  • 1959
    A La Mode

    A La Mode

    A La Mode

    5.51959HD

    A short surreal animation created with fashion magazine clippings and sound collages.

    A La Mode
  • 1960
    The Smiling Workman

    The Smiling Workman

    The Smiling Workman

    01960HD

    Performance art collaboration between Jim Dine and Stan VanDerBeek.

    The Smiling Workman
  • 1965
    Pastorale

    Pastorale

    Pastorale

    01965HD

    A Stan VanDerBeek short film from 1965.

    Pastorale
  • 1967
    Fuses

    Fuses

    Fuses

    5.81967HD

    A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat,...

    Fuses
  • 1968
    Film Form No. 1

    Film Form No. 1

    Film Form No. 1

    01968HD

    A hypnotic dance film of colours, dancers, forms, music, all sweeping through the TV tube eye, mixed together into a flow of female bodies and...

    Film Form No. 1
  • 1981
    After Laughter

    After Laughter

    After Laughter

    01981HD

    In After Laughter, VanDerBeek constructs a rapid-fire montage depicting the evolution of the human race and the haunting specter of its destruction.

    After Laughter
  • 1957
    Mankinda

    Mankinda

    Mankinda

    01957HD

    An animated drawing done directly under the camera, combining painterly images and a drawn calligraphy, the works unfolds as you watch, permitting...

    Mankinda
  • 1965
    See Saw Seams

    See Saw Seams

    See Saw Seams

    41965HD

    An artistic short film directed by Stan Vanderbeek.

    See Saw Seams
  • 1966
    Vision III

    Vision III

    Vision III

    01966HD

    16mm film transferred to video, black and white, silent

    Vision III
  • 1963
    Breathdeath

    Breathdeath

    Breathdeath

    4.91963HD

    A surrealistic fantasy based on the 15th century woodcuts of the dance of the dead. A film experiment that deals with the photoreality and the...

    Breathdeath
  • 1967
    Poem Field No. 1

    Poem Field No. 1

    Poem Field No. 1

    01967HD

    "Words pulsate, then bleed into abstraction. Fields of color fragment into pixels or smear into mutating organisms. Swarming text grids explode into...

    Poem Field No. 1
  • 1972
    Reality's Invisible

    Reality's Invisible

    Reality's Invisible

    5.91972HD

    Fulton made the film during his brief time at Harvard, where he had been invited to teach by Robert Gardner, his friend and collaborator (Fulton...

    Reality's Invisible
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    01985HD

    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1960
    Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev

    Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev

    Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev

    5.21960HD

    A cut-out of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sails over newspaper articles as they take place. Combines live photography and collage animation in one...

    Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev
  • 1968
    Superimposition

    Superimposition

    Superimposition

    01968HD

    Similes of a slippery TV tube gesticulate break and supply – a long view of multiple images (Mr. Johnson's war, is it Howard Johnson's or...

    Superimposition
  • 1980
    Euclidean Illusions

    Euclidean Illusions

    Euclidean Illusions

    01980HD

    A fantasy film of illusive geometry, changing and rebuilding itself by computer animation, unique visual magic done while artist-in-residence at NASA...

    Euclidean Illusions
  • 1959
    Science Friction

    Science Friction

    Science Friction

    5.51959HD

    This film uses stop motion animation of still photographs to convey images of politics and science in the nuclear era. The advancement of science...

    Science Friction
  • 1964
    Fluids

    Fluids

    Fluids

    01964HD

    16mm color work by Stan Vanderbeek that takes his work away from the cutups and the commentary and lands him in the psychedelic and abstract....

    Fluids
  • 1962
    Skullduggery

    Skullduggery

    Skullduggery

    4.31962HD

    A subversive experimental short against the ruling class.

    Skullduggery
  • 1983
    Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie

    Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie

    Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie

    01983HD

    In Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie, VanDerBeek and artist Sonia Sheridan assemble a pastiche of images of Ronald Reagan, metamorphosed...

    Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie