Jordan Belson Trailers
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Jordan Belson was an American artist and filmmaker who created nonobjective, often spiritually oriented, abstract films spanning six decades.
Most Popular Jordan Belson Trailers
Total trailers found: 45
Demon Seed Trailer (1977)
07 April 1977
A scientist creates Proteus, an organic supercomputer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creator's wife.
The Right Stuff Trailer (1983)
20 October 1983
At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space.
Samadhi Trailer (1967)
31 December 1967
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.
Allures Trailer (1961)
31 December 1961
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.
Cycles Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
Cycles brings together 16mm film with Stephen Beck’s Direct Video Synthesizer imagery via a proprietary process Beck referred to as “editation.
Obmaru Trailer (1953)
02 January 1953
"Marx was born in Queensland, Australia, and was a landscape painter and model there before moving to San Francisco.
Mandala Trailer (1953)
01 January 1953
Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.
AIPOKAMORHC Trailer (2025)
28 March 2025
A unique visual interpretation of Tyler, the Creator's latest album, Chromakopia.
Video Weavings Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
Video Weavings is a link between the modern (video) and the ancient (weaving) technologies. Video Weavings are based on poetic mathematical rhymes, or algorithms, visualized in real time on the warp and weft of video's horizontal and vertical scanning electron beams, color phosphors, plasma cells, and LCD pixels.
Thoughtforms Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
The film contains images that are galaxy like. The colors change fluidly and fade and change into each other.
Fountain of Dreams Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
A bold synchronization to the transcendental music of Franz Liszt.
Blues Trailer (1980)
01 January 1980
Also called Pisces, this rarely-screened work is part of Belson’s Synchronicity Suite along with Apollo’s Lyre, Seapeace, and Eleusis/Crotons.
Chakra Trailer (1972)
28 December 1972
"In Chakra, I was able to transfer the traditional order of the chakras into a film, starting with tn
Quartet Trailer (1982)
01 January 1982
Several versions of Quartet were found in filmmaker Jordan Belson’s studio after his death, none completed with music.
Anima Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
Abstract computer animation set to autoharp solo music composed and performed by Jordan Belson
Northern Lights Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
The film contains colors that combine and flow into others. Snow-like objects can also be seen falling over the screen.
World Trailer (1970)
01 January 1970
In fluid sequence the birth of a world depicted as a bio-astronomical event.
Bardo Trailer (2001)
12 November 2001
Experimental film exploring the 'transcendent potential of abstraction'.
Momentum Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
"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.
Mysterious Journey Trailer (1997)
10 August 1997
A lyric, poetic, and visionary trip through outer and inner space. Beautiful and profound, spiritual and sensual, speaks the language of the soul.
Music of the Spheres Trailer (1977)
01 January 1977
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.
Vortex V presentation reel Trailer (1959)
01 January 1959
One of Jordan Belson's presentation reels used in the Vortex Concerts.
Samadhi And Other Films Trailer (1989)
08 July 1989
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.
Apollo Trailer (1982)
01 January 1982
This rarely-screened work, evoking distant planetary landscapes, is listed by the Center for Visual Music as one of Belson’s unfinished and/or unreleased films.
Epilogue Trailer (2005)
23 June 2005
By way of a pure Visual Music experience, the Hirshhorn Museum (Smithsonian Institution) commissioned a major new work from abstract film artist Jordan Belson, who distilled 60 years of visionary sound and images into a twelve minute videofilm.
High Voltage Trailer (1959)
01 January 1959
High Voltage is constructed from footage James Whitney contributed to Belson for use in one of his Vortex concerts.
Things to Come Trailer (1953)
03 March 1953
A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.
Infinity Trailer (1980)
01 January 1980
A cosmic experimental film by Jordan Belson, set to music by Iasos.
Séance Trailer (1959)
01 January 1959
Séance provides one of the first cinematic examples of a flicker effect.
Re-entry Trailer (1964)
01 January 1964
"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.
Light Trailer (1973)
02 January 1973
Based on the continuity of the electromagnetic spectrum. It is a ride through space and light.
Phenomena Trailer (1965)
18 July 1965
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.
Raga Trailer (1958)
02 January 1958
A hand animated film that is a precursor for Belson’s later work
The End Trailer (1953)
23 October 1953
A short film which explores the last day in the lives of six different people.
Bop Scotch Trailer (1952)
03 January 1952
An early film by Jordan Belson from 1952. "[Belson's] early films animated real objects (pavements in Bop Scotch [1952]) and scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images (Mandala [1953]).
Cosmos Trailer (1969)
01 January 1969
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.
Creation Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
The first 12 minutes would later be released as "Fountain of Dreams"
Flight Trailer (1959)
01 January 1959
Jordan Belson’s pure meditation on space: fluid and unfixed, where forms become free abstractions in motion (Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive).
Autobiography Trailer (1951)
01 January 1951
A home movie from 1951 called Autobiography, shot by Belson and Smith in Belson’s North Beach apartment, depicts the classic Beat pad with Smith and Belson’s paintings on the wall, a 16mm projector, and appearances by filmmakers Hy Hirsh and Chris Maclaine and poets Philip Lamantia, Weldon Kees, and Gerd Stern.
LSD Trailer (1962)
01 January 1962
Filmmaker Jordan Belson stated this was simply an unfinished project representing the zeitgeist of this time, rather than a finished film.
