synopsis
VanDerBeek describes his neo-Dadaist film collage, shot using the technique of phase animation, as “a social satire aimed at the rockets, scientists, and competitive mania of our time”. In his vision, science inevitably becomes an accomplice of power, a means of torture, manipulation, and control that ultimately threatens not just some, but the entire planet.
biography
Stan VanDerBeek (1927–1984) was an American multimedia artist, thinker, and inventor who began working with film in 1955.
Science Friction was named the best experimental film at the 1962 Oberhausen Film Festival. In 1964 he built the Moviedrome, an audiovisual laboratory for multimedia experiments, in a former silo.
film details
| director: | Stan VanDerBeek |
Film at festival
| premiere type: | Czech Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2022 |
| section: | Fascinations: Progress |
| language: | No Dialogue |
| subtitles: | No Subtitle |
| colour: | Colour |
Info
| director: | Stan VanDerBeek |
| original title: | Science Friction |
| country: | United States |
| year: | 1959 |
| running time: | 10 min. |
