The Center for Visual Music (CVM), a nonprofit archive based in Los Angeles dedicated to visual music and experimental animation, has extensive mixed media animation collections. Its largest collections are the films of Oskar Fischinger and Jordan Belson, plus Fischinger’s…
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Contemplating Jordan Belson
by Aimee Mollaghan • February 26, 2015 • 1 Comment
Given that the Center for Visual Music’s Video on Demand Vimeo channel has recently started streaming a newly restored version of Jordan Belson’s 1972 film Chakra it seems like an opportune time to highlight the spiritual dimension of his work.…
The Future of Visual Music
by Diana Reichenbach • June 17, 2013 • 2 Comments
My first experience with a Jordan Belson film forever shaped my own direction as an artist. From the cool, dark theater arose the rumble of ambient sound coupled with intense mixtures of color. Such depth, such motion. His ‘story’ was…