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AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS - STAN VANDERBEEKThursday 21 March 2019 7.00 pm

Animated collages and picturesque films show the diversity of the experimental filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek (1927/NYC to 1984/Baltimore). The film reflects on society, science and the mass media of the 1950s and 1960s with a satirical gaze or in a poetic style. With his constructed "Movie Drome Theater" VanDerBeek developed impressive, expansive multi-layer projections from film walls and fog as Expanded Cinema. As a pioneer of abstract, computer-generated graphics for film, he worked at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies and developed interactive TV programs.

Stan VanDerBeek received the Certificate of Art from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, where he later served as Doctorate (Honorary). He also worked as a doctorate (Honorary) at Black Mountain College, Asheville, NC, where he met Merce Cunningham, John Cage and Buckminster Fuller. VanDerBeek taught u.a. at Columbia Collage, NY, University of South Florida, California Institute of the Arts, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He received awards, ia. by Rockefeller Grant, Ford Foundation and New York States Council.

Exhibitions / Screenings (selection):
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (UK), Bienal de São Paulo (BR), Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (USA), Guggenheim Museum, New York (USA), Venice Film Festival (IT), Bergamo Film Festival (IT), Oberhausen Film Festival (GER), Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA)

Curation: Sophia & Franziska Hoffmann

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Still: Movie Drome

 

Bild oben: "Science-Friction" 1959, Stan VanDerBeek, The Film-Makers' Coop (NYC)