Jordan Belson: Epilogue and Other Films
Jordan Belson: Epilogue and Other Films A Special Screening accompanying White LightPresented by the Center for Visual Music (www.centerforvisualmusic.org) A special program of transcendent films by the great abstract film master Jordan Belson, featuring the European premiere of his new work, Epilogue (2005). A pure Visual Music experience, Belson has distilled 60 years of visionary sound and images into a 12 minute videofilm, synchronized to a symphonic tone poem “Isle of the Dead Opus 29” by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The New York Times recently praised Epilogue’s “lush and misty optics.”Epilogue was commissioned by The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Smithsonian Institution) for the recent US “Visual Music” exhibition. The film was produced by The Center for Visual Music, with support from The NASA Art Program.Program also includes Belson’s legendary Allures, an early masterpiece of Avant-Garde Cinema; Samadhi, considered one of his most important films; Part IV of Mysterious Journey; Music of the Spheres and Northern Lights.”Certain phenomena manage to touch a realm of our consciousness so seldomreached that when it is awakened we are shocked and profoundly moved. It’s an experience of self-realization as much as an encounter with the external world. The cosmic films of Jordan Belson possess this rare and enigmatic power.” (Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema).Program will be introduced by Cindy Keefer, Director, Center for Visual Music.
