Jordan Belson
Date of Birth: 06 Jun 1926
Country: USA
Biography: Jordan Belson (June 6, 1926 – September 6, 2011) was an American artist and abstract cinematic filmmaker who created nonobjective, often spiritually oriented, abstract films spanning six decades.
Total Credits at Criticker: 7 (Actor), 14 (Director), 1 (Writer)
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Fountain of Dreams (1984) - Short Film
Fountain of Dreams sets Belson's swirling clouds of brilliantly-hued effluvium and various shimmering reflections to the stirring piano music of Franz Liszt. (filmjourney)
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Meditation (1972) - Short Film
the hallucinatory aspect of imagery is certainly inherent in my work and in the ideas relevant to my work." In a program note that accompanies Meditation (1971), Belson states, "by diving deep through your spiritual eye you will see into the fourth dimension, aglow with the wonders of the inner world. It is hard to get there, but how beautiful it is! (KG)
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Allures (1961) - Short Film
Abstract animation set to music. Not frenetic, slow swirls and twirls, overlapped colored light patterns set to sparse music with dark electronic manipulation (composed by Belson and Oscar-nom musician/humorist Henry Jacobs) (deeperintomovies.net)
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Epilogue (2005) - Short Film
Twelve minutes of swirling colors would be pretty dull except for the soundtrack, Rachmaninov's symphonic tone poem Isle of the Dead (dcist.com)
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Light (1973) - Short Film
The film portrays light simultaneously as both a spectrum of physical phenomena and as corresponding states of consciousness. It is an expression of light as a physiological and psychological substance (Jordan Belson)
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Chakra (1972) - Short Film
"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 seventh (top) chakra..." - Jordan Belson (themoviedb.org)
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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 printer. (themoviedb)
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The shifting, abstract color imagery of Jordan Belson's "Cosmos," which unfurls to electronic sound, is attributed in the program notes to the artist's insight from experience with drugs and yoga.
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A lyric, poetic, and visionary trip through outer and inner space. Beautiful and profound, spiritual and sensual, speaks the language of the soul.
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