synopsis
The first in an eight-part series of computer-generated animations created in collaboration with Ken Knowlton at Bell Laboratories and using Knowlton's Beflix programming language. The film, in which word becomes image and image becomes word, weaves a rich tapestry of geometric configurations.
biography
Stan VanDerBeek (1927–1984) was an award-winning avant-garde filmmaker and multimedia artist and a pioneer of live-action animation. In the 1960s, he created ten computer films in collaboration with Ken Knowlton of Bell Laboratories. His audiovisual laboratory for multimedia experiments and the Moviedrome “experience machine” was recently reinstalled for the exhibition
Signals: How Video Transformed the World (2023) at MoMA, New York. Ji.hlava IDFF presented his
Film Form No. 1 (1970) in 2017 and
Science Friction (1059) as part of Fascination: Progress in 2022.
film details
| director: | Stan VanDerBeek |
| producer: | Stan VanDerBeek |
Info
| director: | Stan VanDerBeek |
| original title: | Poemfield No. 1 |
| country: | United States |
| year: | 1967 |
| running time: | 5 min. |
