Movies
- 1957
What, Who, How
What, Who, How4.21957HD
An animated short film from Stan Vanderbeek.
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- 1967
Poem Field No. 1
Poem Field No. 101967HD
"Words pulsate, then bleed into abstraction. Fields of color fragment into pixels or smear into mutating organisms. Swarming text grids explode into...
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- 1983
Micro Cosmos 1-4
Micro Cosmos 1-401983HD
In Micro Cosmos, a series of four short computer-animated works, the image of an orb is transformed into a pulsating, energetic evocaton of life...
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- 1960
Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev
Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev5.21960HD
A cut-out of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sails over newspaper articles as they take place. Combines live photography and collage animation in one...
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- 1969
Filmmakers
Filmmakers01969HD
Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each...
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- 1970
Poem Field No. 8
Poem Field No. 801970HD
Poem Field No. 8 is an computer-animated short made in the Beflix programming language.
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- 1966
Collide: Oscope
Collide: Oscope01966HD
An experimental film
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- 1967
Panels for the Walls of the World
Panels for the Walls of the World01967HD
A short by Stan Vanderbeek.
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- 1968
Film Form No. 1
Film Form No. 101968HD
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...
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- 1967
Poem Field No. 7
Poem Field No. 701967HD
"Calligraphic computer animation of the enigmatic poem 'There is no way to peace- Peace is the way.' Black and white animation is colored by Brown/...
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- 1972
Symmetricks
Symmetricks01972HD
Against a black background and a pulsating beat matching white symmetrical geometric flashes around a central orb, white lines are drawn in mirror...
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- 1967
Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version)
Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version)01967HD
To create his “Poemfields” (1965-71) series, VanDerBeek worked closely with computer scientist Ken Knowlton and the staff at Bell Labs....
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- 1962
Skullduggery
Skullduggery4.31962HD
A subversive experimental short against the ruling class.
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- 1965
The Birth of the American Flag
The Birth of the American Flag01965HD
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- 1965
See Saw Seams
See Saw Seams41965HD
An artistic short film directed by Stan Vanderbeek.
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- 1967
Poem Field No. 3
Poem Field No. 301967HD
In this pioneering work of early computer art, geometric groupings of monochrome patterns and words are created with the program BEFLIX, which was...
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- 1970
Poem Field No. 4
Poem Field No. 401970HD
Poem Field No. 4 is an computer-animated short made in the Beflix programming language.
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- 1968
Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall
Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall01968HD
COMPUTER ART SERIES is animated computer/graphic films. The series is called POEMFIELD. All of these films explore variations of poems, computer...
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- 1965
A Dam Rib Bed
A Dam Rib Bed01965HD
"A two screen Dream/Film/Farce/Sity about sleeps-two-sides-the Dream-Beast, animated trick photography combined into a knifed dream with a sexual...
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- 1959
A La Mode
A La Mode5.51959HD
A short surreal animation created with fashion magazine clippings and sound collages.
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