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Johanna Vanderbeek will present and discuss the films of her late husband Stan. Combining animation, painting and collage with a Dadaist sensibility, Vanderbeek made films in the 1950's and 1960's that were beautifully original, humorous and revealed a passionate and experimental mind. Vanderbeek was a student at Black Mountain College in the early 1950's where he was around talents like Robert Motherwell, Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg. In the 1960's he and his wife Johanna moved into the Gate Hill Community in Stony Point, NY which was founded by other BMC "refugees". There, he cut off the top of a silo and used the inside as a domed projection screen for multi-projector presentations. He called it a Movie-Drome.As Amos Vogel wrote in a tribute after Stan�s death, �Stan was a seer and a scientist; he saw no contradiction between them: both were of the cosmos.� Stan Vanderbeek never made the compromises often involved in achieving commercial success but rather continued to make films on his own terms as he sought new ways to blend art and technology. �Clearly a Renaissance Man, Vanderbeek has been a vital force in the convergence of art and technology, displaying a visionary 's insight into the cultural and psychological implications of the Paleocybernetic Age." Gene Youngblood in Expanded Cinema. This event is on Thursday, December 3rd at 7:30 pm. For more information contact Alice Sebrell at 828-350-8484. (Image provided by Black Mountain College.)
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