when you see many (experimental) movies made by Stan Vanderbeek, you can easily categorize them, or as we say, find the similar elements between them to find a way to understand the meaning of his films, or at least try to do so. Science Friction definitely is not his best one, but it affirmed what I was thinking about him: that mister Vanderbeek uses images like eyes and hammers to make his point. but what is his point actually? in Science Friction, he shows us many known faces from around the world, and plays with them as he always does. most important here are the references to authority and the universe. if, and this is a personal approach toward Vanderbeek, Stan uses eyes to make us see we are watching while being watched (I know how strange this may sound) and hammers as a metaphor for violence in the society we live in, we can conclude we are watching violence that is violating us in an artistic way. in effect, it may represent our way of living with, near and close to each other. this way we forget we're just a little spot in the endless universe, which was created by violence and constantly uses that violence to change in little bits we can't see with our own eyes, but maybe we could by viewing a Stan Vanderbeek movie. it's all about representing life as we know it in an artistic way, nothing more, nothing less. this may not directly be science fiction, but because of his frictional approach, this sure is rightly called Science Friction. to conclude, I didn't like this one, but all the other Vanderbeek experimental pictures I saw already, I really adored. long live Stan Vanderbeek, even if he's passed away a long time ago. but maybe this could be a nice topic for one of his movies: contacting from the afterlife to give us messages hidden in everyday objects mutilated on the small screen.