1967
Poem Field No. 1
Directed by Stan VanDerBeek
"Words pulsate, then bleed into abstraction. Fields of color fragment into pixels or smear into mutating organisms. Swarming text grids explode into chaotic rainbow clouds, blinking dots, stars, and spirals. Snaking orange lines and pointillist textures form strobing mandalas, mosaic embroidery, and Pac Man architecture, tumbling geometries of throbbing color that dissolve into blue, pink, yellow, and green pixel noise." - Leo Goldsmith, writing about VanDerBeek's Poemfield series
Duration
0h 5m
Released
June 30, 1967
Cast0
Part ofThe Poem Field
Includes Poem Field No. 1 (1967), Poem Field No. 2 (1966), Poem Field No. 3 (1967), Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall (1968), Poem Field No. 4 (), Poem Field No. 7 (1967), Poem Field No. 6 (), and Poem Field No. 8 ().
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