{"id":10007,"date":"2011-09-19T03:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T02:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=10007"},"modified":"2011-09-19T03:00:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T02:00:05","slug":"science-friction-by-stan-vanderbeek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/09\/19\/science-friction-by-stan-vanderbeek\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Friction by Stan VanDerBeek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/film\/vanderbeek_science.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/vanderbeek.jpg\" alt=\"vanderbeek.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ubuweb seems to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/film\/vanderbeek.html\" target=\"_blank\">the best collection of films<\/a> by experimental filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek (1927\u20131984) but not the one I was looking for, unfortunately, an abstract thing entitled <em>Moirage<\/em>. Searching around turned up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/film\/vanderbeek_science.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Science Friction<\/em><\/a> (1959), one of a number of collage animations VanDerBeek made in the 1950s. The juxtapositions of collage have always been good for comedy, and here they&#8217;re put to satirical effect in a comment on the Space Race and the tensions of the Cold War. When viewed today it&#8217;s impossible to ignore the resemblance to the later collage animation of Terry Gilliam. VanDerBeek wasn&#8217;t the only person doing this at the time\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/film\/borowczyk_astro.html\" target=\"_blank\">Walerian Borowczyk<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/film\/smith_heaven.html\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Smith<\/a> also made collage films\u2014but VanDerBeek&#8217;s sense of humour seems close enough to Gilliam&#8217;s to have given him ideas.<\/p>\n<p>For more about the director there&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectstanvanderbeek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project Stan VanDerBeek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/01\/15\/heaven-and-earth-magic-by-harry-smith\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heaven and Earth Magic by Harry Smith<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/11\/10\/gilliams-shaver-and-bovril-by-electrocution\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gilliam\u2019s shaver and Bovril by electrocution<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/06\/06\/short-films-by-walerian-borowczyk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Short films by Walerian Borowczyk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuweb seems to have the best collection of films by experimental filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek (1927\u20131984) but not the one I was looking for, unfortunately, an abstract thing entitled Moirage. Searching around turned up Science Friction (1959), one of a number of collage animations VanDerBeek made in the 1950s. The juxtapositions of collage have always been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/09\/19\/science-friction-by-stan-vanderbeek\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Science Friction by Stan VanDerBeek&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,1029,7],"tags":[2162,2902,1835,119,4056],"class_list":["post-10007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-collage","category-film","tag-harry-smith","tag-stan-vanderbeek","tag-terry-gilliam","tag-ubuweb","tag-walerian-borowczyk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2Bp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}