- Thursday, October 14, 2010
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Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane
Date + Time
Thursday, October 14, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Location
Phyllis Wattis Theater
Overview
Since 1947, Bay Area artist Belson has explored consciousness, transcendence, and light in an extraordinary body of abstract films that has been called "cosmic cinema." This program features rarely screened films including Caravan (1952), a new preservation print of Chakra (1972), and the Bay Area premiere of Epilogue (2005), a distillation of 60 years of visionary images synchronized to a symphonic tone poem by Rachmaninoff. Presented in Association with Center for Visual Music.
Participants
Introduced by Cindy Keefer, archivist and curator, Center for Visual Music
Admission + Ticketing
$5 general; free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission (requires a free ticket, which can be picked up in the Haas Atrium).
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Image: Jordan Belson, Epilogue (still), 2005; © Jordan Belson; courtesy Center for Visual Music
Many of the films in this program were preserved with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Epilogue was produced with support from the NASA Art Program.
