Drawing from spiritual systems spanning from Buddhism to alchemy to Kabbalah, Jordan Belson’s films posit sensuous dances of light and color as windows into a wider vision of awareness. From the 1940’s until his passing in 2011, Belson was a trailblazer in the San Francisco art scene and a pioneer in ‘Non-Objectivism,’ which he described as, “\[constructing\] real events in an unreal world.”

Spectacle is proud to present an evening of rarely seen Belson films. We will be projecting new 16 mm prints made from Belson’s original internegatives. We have invited Bradley Eros to curate a program responding to these works. Belson has been a foundational influence in Eros’s work since he was first introduced to the films as a student of Ron Eppel’s at the University of Illinois Champaign/Urbana. Eros’s first published essay was a 1972 essay on Belson’s films for legendary film zine The MacGuffin.

Works by Bradley Eros (Mediamystics and Vampÿrates) will be interwoven with Belson’s, making use of celluloid and multi-screen projection to transform the theater into a conduit for the numinous.

Full lineup of films: https://www.spectacletheater.com/gnostic-cinema