SCIENCE FRICTION (STAN VANDERBEEK, 1959)

This is a wonderful cut and paste animation from the master of collage… VanDerBeek studied art and architecture first at Cooper Union Collegein New York and then at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where he met architect Buckminster Fuller, composer John Cage, and choreographer Merce Cunningham. VanDerBeek began his career in the 1950s making independent art film while learning animation techniques and working painting scenery and set designs for the American TV show, Winky Dink and You. His earliest films, made between 1955 and 1965 mostly consist of animated paintings and collage films, combined in a form of organic development.