Belson, Jordan
Entry updated 18 October 2024. Tagged: Film, People.
(1926-2011) US filmmaker who from 1947 created numerous short abstract films, often of a mystical or cosmic nature, as suggested by such titles as Mandala (1953), Cosmos (1969), Meditation (1971) and Infinity (1980). The closest to sf is Re-entry (1964), which includes snippets of astronaut John Glenn's radio communications alongside rather beautiful images of abstract colour and light to evoke the experience of Space Flight. Belson's films proved attractive to filmmakers wanting to copy the Stargate sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) on a lower budget, and portions of his films were used in Doppelganger (1969; Journey to the Far Side of the Sun) and Demon Seed (1977); he also created original work for The Right Stuff (1983). All these movies tended to ignore any aspects of his art other than a vague "trippy" quality. Belson also made visual projections for the Morrison Planetarium in San Francisco from 1957 to 1959. [CWa]
Jordan Belson
born Chicago, Illinois: 6 June 1926
died San Francisco, California: 6 September 2011
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