Poemfield No. 1

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.

more about film

director:	Stan VanDerBeek
producer:	Stan VanDerBeek