didn't make This Week in A-G Cinema listings - *Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane* Tuesday, February 7, 2017, 7:30 pm BAM Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA Presented in association with Center for Visual Music
Introduced by Cindy Keefer, curator/archivist In person: Stephen Beck Jordan Belson made abstract films richly woven with cosmological imagery exploring consciousness, transcendence, and the nature of light itself. Often called “cosmic cinema,” his films unfold imagery of skies, galaxies, suns, stars, auroras. Belson began as a painter and received his BA from UC Berkeley in 1946. Inspired by the work screened at the Art in Cinema series in San Francisco, he began making films, developing a distinctive visual vocabulary relating inner and outer space. His work as visual director of the Vortex Concerts (1957–59) at Morrison Planetarium was a primary influence on the Bay Area light shows of the 1960s (C. Keefer). Films include: Bop Scotch, Mandala, Seance, Vortex V presentation reel, Allures, LSD, Samadhi, Momentum, Chakra, Cycles, Music of the Spheres (original 1977 long version). *Many of the films in this program were preserved by Center for Visual Music with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation; except for *Cycles*, films are from the Center for Visual Music, Los Angeles. New 16mm film print of *Cycles* made by and loaned by Stephen Beck.* *BAMPFA: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/event/jordan-belson-films-sacred-and-profane-0 <http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/event/jordan-belson-films-sacred-and-profane-0>* This program (slightly different version) will screen next at: BFI London, Feb 28 Centre Pompidou, Paris, March 3 For more about Jordan Belson: www.centerforvisualmusic.org *********************** CVM is releasing a new compilation DVD Feb 27 which includes 3 films by Belson - Chakra, Mandala and Meditation (plus films by Dockum, Bute and others), please visit www.centerforvisualmusic.org next week, or email CVM to pre-order best regards, Cindy Keefer, Center for Visual Music CVM email - cvmaccess (at) gmail.com
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