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Jordan Belson
Director 1926 - 2011

Jordan Belson

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Jordan Belson was an American artist and filmmaker who created nonobjective, often spiritually oriented, abstract films spanning six decades.

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

9 titles
Chakra

Chakra

Jordan Belson 1972 6m

"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

Meditation

Meditation

Jordan Belson 1971 5m

An abstract experimental short film from Jordan Belson.

World

World

Jordan Belson 1970 6m

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

Cosmos

Jordan Belson 1969 7m

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. - The New York Times

Momentum

Momentum

Jordan Belson 1968 6m

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

Samadhi

Samadhi

Jordan Belson 1967 5m

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

Phenomena

Phenomena

Jordan Belson 1965 7m

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

Re-entry

Re-entry

Jordan Belson 1964 7m

"In Re-entry he successfully synthesizes the Yogic and the cosmological elements in his art for the first time by forcefully abstracting and playing down both of them..." P. Adams Sitney

Allures

Allures

Jordan Belson 1961 8m

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 becomes transcendental.

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