SCIENCE FRICTION

Directed by Stan Vanderbeek

United States, 1959

Short, Avant-Garde, Animation

Synopsis

An animated short done in a collage style made from photo clippings out of various magazines and newspapers and interspersed with short live action segments.

Synopsis

An animated short done in a collage style made from photo clippings out of various magazines and newspapers and interspersed with short live action segments.

Our take

Pioneering experimental filmmaker Stan Vanderbeek mines the trash heap of mass media for this pulsating, Pop collage of muscle men and machinery. Alternating between stop-motion and paint-splattered live-action, Science Friction captures the frenzy of the space race and fear of the atom bomb.