DVDs, 10-9

The Center for Visual Music is rolling out what sound like two amazing collections, Oscar Fischinger: Ten Films and Jordan Belson: 5 Essential Films. "Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967) was one of the earliest pioneers of abstract animation, placing him in the company of filmmakers like Walter Ruttmann and Hans Richter, who were working only a few years after Kandinsky's first entirely nonrepresentational painting in 1910," Doug Cummings reminds us, while Belson "began his career as a painter, moved into animation and experimental film, and later joined electronic composer Henry Jacobs to create psychedelic Vortex Concerts at a planetarium in San Francisco in the late-50s. Like a number of Beats, Belson was highly influenced by Eastern mysticism and he began formulating abstract, audiovisual presentations that often utilized circular motifs, solar imagery, lasers, star fields, and billowing, ethereal vapors". Posted by: dwhudson    Source