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Science Friction

Stan VANDERVEEK

USA1959 9min 16mm Color

Synopsis

Science Friction is a satire on the over-infatuation with rockets today...a spoof of the rocket stage of life. The purpose of the 'poetic-politic' satire in Stan VANDERVEEK's films is to attack some of the aspects of super reality that has been so hastily and carelessly built around us. If this film has a social ambition, it is to help disarm the social fuse of people living with anxiety, to point out the insidious folly of competitive suicide by way of rockets. (Paul CRONIN)

Diretor

Stan VANDERVEEK

Born in 1927. In 1959, he screened his and his friends’ films in a few cinemas in New York. This event became to be known as the Films from the Underground. Known as the ‘Father of the Underground Films Movement’, he was at the centre of the 1960s experimental film wave.