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- Raumlichtkunst (1926/2012) was the name of a series of live multiple projector concerts given by Oskar Fischinger in the 1920s in Germany. It was not performed after that time. In 2012 it was restored and reconstructed from original nitrate materials, by Center for Visual Music in Los Angeles. It now exists as an HD digital, three-projector, looped museum installation for black box galleries, having been on display at Tate Modern, Whitney Museum New York, ACMI Melbourne and other museums worldwide. The three non-synched loops create ever-evolving new combinations of abstract patterns. While the original was accompanied by live percussive music, the reconstruction is exhibited with three different compositions by John Cage and Lou Harrison, and Edgar Varese.
- A compilation reel of black and white effects used by Belson (with colored filters and lighting) at the Vortex Concerts in 1959. It was not released as a film. It was restored but is not in release.
- Séance uses some of the interference patterns and other patterns and images Belson created for the historic Vortex Concerts at Morrison Planetarium in San Francisco (1957-59), though this film was not actually screened at the concerts, nor were all these images used there. The film was completed after the Concerts ended. Belson had asked his Vortex collaborator Henry Jacobs to compose a soundtrack for this film, but this didn't occur. Instead Belson used a soundtrack by Pierre Schaeffer, "Etude aux Allures." This composition was performed at the International Festival of Experimental Music at the 1958 Brussels fair, billed with "Visualization by Jordan Belson."
- A pure Visual Music experience, Belson has distilled 60 years of visionary sound and images into this 12 minute videofilm, synchronized to a symphonic tone poem "Isle of the Dead Opus 29" by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The New York Times praised Epilogue's "lush and misty optics." Epilogue was commissioned by The Hirshhorn Museum (Smithsonian Institution) for its 2005 US "Visual Music" exhibition. The film was produced by Center for Visual Music, with support from The NASA Art Program.
- Stars and stripes forever and ever and ever. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.
- An unreleased film, which Belson claimed was part of the "zeitgeist" of 1960s San Francisco. It was restored and is very occasionally screened in special Retrospectives, but he did not want it released.
- An unreleased film by Jordan Belson, with 4 sections exploring his vocabulary of abstract images. It was not finished with a soundtrack. The silent version is occasionally screened in a special Retrospective.
- Photographed from Tibetan scroll paintings of the 16th to 19th centuries, Tanka is a cyclical vision of ancient gods and demons, an animated journey through the image world of the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
- Compilation of abstract animated films by Oskar Fischinger; includes his short films Spirals, Spiritual Constructions, Study 6, Liebesspiel, Radio Dynamics, and Motion Painting No. 1.