[Frameworks] Friday reminder - Jordan Belson show, Philadelphia

[C Keefer]

A reminder for tonight, Friday July 6, 7 pm:

Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane, Retrospective program from Center for Visual Music screens at International House, Philadelphia. 16mm preserved prints.

Born in Chicago and raised in the Bay Area, Jordan Belson trained as a painter before turning his attention to filmmaking after discovering the abstract films of Oskar Fischinger, Norman McLaren, and Hans Richter at the seminal Art in Cinema series. Since 1947, Belson has explored consciousness, transcendence, and the nature of light itself in a visionary body of work that has been called “cosmic cinema” – brimming with vibrant color, mandalas, liquid forms, and mesmerizing rhythms. From 1957-59, Belson collaborated with sound artist Henry Jacobs on the “Vortex Concerts,” multimedia events that combined new electronic music from around the world with Belson’s visual effects projected on the interior of the sixty-five-foot dome of the California Academy of Science’s Morrison Planetarium. This program features rarely screened films including Séance (1959), Caravan, Re-entry, and Cycles; new preservation prints of Momentum (1968) and Chakra (1972), Belson's final work, Epilogue (2005, digibeta), a distillation of sixty years of visionary images synchronized to a symphonic tone poem by Rachmaninoff, and more films. Introduced by curator/archivist Cindy Keefer of CVM.

http://ihousephilly.org/events/jordan-belson-films-sacred-and-profane/

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