Jordan Belson

Also called Pisces, this rarely-screened work is part of Belson’s Synchronicity Suite along with Apollo’s Lyre, Seapeace, and...

This rarely-screened work, evoking distant planetary landscapes, is listed by the Center for Visual Music as one of Belson’s unfinished and/or...

Samadhi is both mystical and mysterious, an incredible fusion of movement, sound and colour. Belson notes the influence of his study and practice of...

Allures is a spectacular sequence of moving figures and points, a film which reaches out to the cosmic and the spiritual, where the spatial dimension...

An abstract experimental short film from Jordan Belson.

A scientist creates Proteus, an organic supercomputer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the...

Directed by Jordan Belson.

A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

By way of a pure Visual Music experience, the Hirshhorn Museum (Smithsonian Institution) commissioned a major new work from abstract film artist...

A bold synchronization to the transcendental music of Franz Liszt.

Short experimental film by Jordan Belson

High Voltage is constructed from footage James Whitney contributed to Belson for use in one of his Vortex concerts.

In the early 1950s, Jordan Belson made a hand-drawn animated commercial for the local newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle. He disliked the music...

"Momentum is Belson's most serene and gentle film since Allures. This treatment of the sun as an almost dreamlike hallucinatory experience is both...

"In Re-entry he successfully synthesizes the Yogic and the cosmological elements in his art for the first time by forcefully abstracting and playing...

"In Chakra, I was able to transfer the traditional order of the chakras into a film, starting with the first (lower) chakra and working up to the...

The shifting, abstract color imagery of Jordan Belson's "Cosmos," which unfurls to electronic sound, is attributed in the program notes to the...

Approach the work "...As though you were approaching earth as a god, from cosmic consciousness [...] You see the same things but with completely...

In fluid sequence the birth of a world depicted as a bio-astronomical event.

The first 12 minutes would later be released as "Fountain of Dreams"

A lyric, poetic, and visionary trip through outer and inner space. Beautiful and profound, spiritual and sensual, speaks the language of the soul.

An early film by Jordan Belson from 1952. "[Belson's] early films animated real objects (pavements in Bop Scotch [1952]) and scroll paintings...

Filmmaker Jordan Belson stated this was simply an unfinished project representing the zeitgeist of this time, rather than a finished film.

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

Cycles brings together 16mm film with Stephen Beck’s Direct Video Synthesizer imagery via a proprietary process Beck referred to as...

Séance provides one of the first cinematic examples of a flicker effect.

One of Jordan Belson's presentation reels used in the Vortex Concerts.

Several versions of Quartet were found in filmmaker Jordan Belson’s studio after his death, none completed with music.

Music of the Spheres returns to Belson's galactic imagery in a kaleidoscopic journey through space and time with the technological help of an optical...

As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history...

The film contains colors that combine and flow into others. Snow-like objects can also be seen falling over the screen. Although when Belson made the...

The film contains images that are galaxy like. The colors change fluidly and fade and change into each other. A strange technique is used in this...

Experimental film exploring the 'transcendent potential of abstraction'.

"Marx was born in Queensland, Australia, and was a landscape painter and model there before moving to San Francisco. However, when she arrived, she...

Experimental short by Jordan Belson.

Experimental short by Jordan Belson.

A hand animated film that is a precursor for Belson’s later work

A Jordan Belson film.

Produced from Mystic Fire this film sums up 25 years of Jordan Belson's work by combining excerpts from his classic films with more recent work. This...

Produced from Mystic Fire this film sums up 25 years of Jordan Belson's work by combining excerpts from his classic films with more recent work. This...

Video Weavings is a link between the modern (video) and the ancient (weaving) technologies. Video Weavings are based on poetic mathematical rhymes,...

Abstract computer animation set to autoharp solo music composed and performed by Jordan Belson

A short film which explores the last day in the lives of six different people.