Influenced by Buckminster Fuller’s spheres, VanDerBeek had the idea for a spherical theater where people would lie down and experience movies all around them. Floating multi-images would replace straight one-dimensional film projection. From 1957 on, VanDerBeek produced film sequences for the Movie-Drome, which he started building in 1963. His intention went far beyond the building itself and moved into the surrounding biosphere, the cosmos, the brain and even extraterrestrial intelligence.
Stan VanDerBeek
Director
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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back64%
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One68%
Blade Runner79%
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie76%
Jodorowsky's Dune78%
Jexi67%
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood74%
Dolemite Is My Name69%
The Director and the Jedi72%
Teen Beach Movie69%
Nickelodeon62%
Four Rooms59%
Roundhay Garden Scene64%
Fast Times at Ridgemont High68%
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Easy A68%
Pi71%
King Kong68%
My Week with Marilyn66%
