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Filmstill Cycles
Cycles
Stephen Beck, Jordan Belson
A union of two artists and their two mediums of expression: celluloid film and synthesized video. A deeply psychedelic and meditative cycle of transformations in the weightlessness of light.
Filmstill Cycles

Cycles

Cycles
Stephen Beck, Jordan Belson
Animation Night 2025
Animated Film
USA
1974
11 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

A union between two artists and their respective mediums of expression: celluloid film and electronic video. Stephen Beck, inventor of his own video synthesizer, and Jordan Belson, a famed abstract filmmaker and animation artist twice Beck’s age, spent two years working together on this journey through spheres of thought, mysticism and form. Deeply psychedelic and yet with all the weightlessness of light.

Ben Sassen

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Director
Stephen Beck, Jordan Belson