From early collage animation created in the spirit of the surreal and dadaist work of Max Ernst, but with a wild, rough informality more akin to the expres-sionism of the Beat Generation (Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam quotes Vanderbeek as being one of his earliest sources of inspiration), to utopian experiments in expanded cinema, building a dome theatre with dozens of projectors or creating computer animated films and holographic experiments with Bell labs, Vanderbeek was a visionary well before his time. In the 1970s he designed global fax murals, steam projections and interactive television programs. http://www.guildgreyshkul.com/exhibitions/stanvan/

“Stan Vanderbeek is one of our few genuine film artists – a poet, a clown, a laughing man of the Bomb Age.”- Jonas Mekas

Science Friction 9min, 16mm, 1959

A neo-dadaist, non-verbal political satire, ominous and comical, this film reflects mass society, conformism, and bombs large enough to blast the Eiffel tower and the Pieta into outer space. At the end, a mysterious gloved hand picks up the spinning earth and makes an omelette with it.

Skullduggery 5min, 16mm, 1960

Double exposure and other methods are used to include animated collage "live" newsreel footage, mixing the eye with live scenes and unlive scenes, to jibe at world so-called leaders.

Breathdeath 15min, 16mm, 1964

Dedicated to Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. 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 surrealism of life. It is a collage-animation that cuts up photos and newsreel film and reassembles them, producing an image that is a mixture of unexplainable fact (Why is Harpo Marx playing a harp in the middle of a battlefield?) with the inexplicable act (Why is there a battlefield?). It is a black comedy, a fantasy that mocks at death ... a parabolic parable.

Super-Imposition 15min, 16mm, 1965

Similies 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 President Johnson's war?) - a long curving view, breakfast with aspirin, good grief - or Goodbye. (SUPER-IMPOSITION is a videotape experiment with multiple images, made with film artist-in-residency at Colgate University.)

Life and art ... interacting ... it is interesting to note that movies and psychoanalysis are approximately the same age ... there are now more TV sets in America than bathtubs. There are more radios in America than people. Although 75 percent of Japanese households have television sets, statistics show only 35 percent have running water and fewer than ten percent have flush sanitation. Some 40 percent of American children have one or more.

Wheeeels No. 15min, 16mm, 1968

A companion piece to Wheeeels No. 2, 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.

Euclidean Illusions 9min, 16mm, 1980

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

Achoo Mr. Keroochev 2min, 16mm, 1959