Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016

A collage of newsreels, found film footage, glass slides, projected drawings, the artist’s own experimental films, and freestanding screens, Stan VanDerBeek’s Movie Mural is a portable version of his Movie-Drome, an immersive cinematic experience that he conceived in the 1950s and realized in 1963 as a multifaceted projection of films onto the domed interior of a grain silo in upstate New York. In many ways, both works—fractured, kaleidoscopic, and collaged together across multiple screens—anticipate the condition of the contemporary digital image.