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The oeuvre of the late avant-garde filmmaker and visual artist Jordan Belson (1926–2011), like most good art, defies any easy description and interpretation. “I’ve come to have a complete mistrust of words,” Belson remarked, saying that, “it’s a glorious thing if you don’t expect an explanation.”
For almost sixty years Jordan Belson lived in the same charming corner of San Francisco, the bohemian enclave known as North Beach, named after the region of Italy from where the locals emigrated—the Gulf of Trieste. Rents were cheap and neighbors tolerant.