Cycles (1974) dir. Stephen Beck, Jordan Belson

CYCLES utilizes ideographic glyphs in declaring the cyclic principles. “Time is rhythmic; the heart beats, the respiration goes in and out; time is cyclical.“ (From The Parable of The Beast) CYCLES was made in 1973-1974 by Stephen “Steve“ Beck and Jordan Belson. Technically, CYCLES was a collaboration and fusion of Beck’s Direct Video Synthesis and Belson’s optical film methods.