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   "Jordan Belson (1926–2011), a seminal figure in twentieth-century avant-garde cinema, studied painting as a young man, and in 1949 his work was included in two exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum, then called the Museum of Non-Objective Painting. In the late 1940s he began making films, settling in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, where he lived for the remainder of his life. In the early 1950s, well before hippies replaced beatniks and San Francisco became known as a center of psychedelic activity, Belson started experimenting with hallucinogens and devoted himself to meditation and a rigorous yoga discipline in an effort to expand his consciousness, resulting in films that were tightly controlled yet often ecstatic transmissions of a liberated mind's eye." -Matthew Marks Gallery