Stan VanDerBeek Movie Trailers

Phenomenon No. 1 Trailer (1964)

01 January 1964

Dream matrix, history written in lightning image, memory and the TV syntax, images flowing and fused together to other images and electronic tapestry of images half seen, sought for, seeking man's dreams, movies as dreams, history as media.

Poem Field No. 3 Trailer (1967)

01 January 1967

In this pioneering work of early computer art, geometric groupings of monochrome patterns and words are created with the program BEFLIX, which was developed in the 1960s by Bell Telephone Laboratories programmer Kenneth Knowlton.

Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema” Trailer (1973)

26 March 1973

During the 1970s I shot, helped to make, or commissioned about ten document films, mainly about film-makers.

Dance of the Looney Spoons Trailer (1959)

01 January 1959

An animated and live action fantasy, the loop de loops of ten spoons, forks and tableware ... a parable in the shape of a soup spoon .

Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall Trailer (1968)

29 May 1968

COMPUTER ART SERIES is animated computer/graphic films. The series is called POEMFIELD. All of these films explore variations of poems, computer graphics, and in some cases combine live action images and animation collage; all are geometric and fast moving and in color.

Poem Field No. 2 Trailer (1966)

01 January 1966

To create his “Poemfields” (1965-71) series, VanDerBeek worked closely with computer scientist Ken Knowlton and the staff at Bell Labs.

Collide: Oscope Trailer (1966)

09 February 1966

An experimental film

Wheeeeels No. 2 Trailer (1958)

01 January 1958

A companion piece to Wheeeels No. 1, exploring more of the highways and by-ways of “American on Wheels”- with the filmmaker's gentle surgery on the American pop-consciousness very much in evidence.

Panels for the Walls of the World Trailer (1967)

15 June 1967

A short by Stan Vanderbeek.

A Dam Rib Bed Trailer (1965)

01 January 1965

"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 dream's edge.