Albright, Thomas. Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-80: An Illustrated History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

Bendazzi, Giannalberto. Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation. Indiana University Press, 1995.

Beyer, Stephan. The Cult of Tara: Magic and Ritual in Tibet. University of California Press, 1978. P. 105.

Brougher, Kerry, et al. Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1990. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2005.

Bukatman, Scott. Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century. Duke University Press, 2003.

Callenbach, Ernest. "Phenomena and Samadhi." Film Quarterly 21, no. 3 (Spring 1968): 48-9. On JSTOR

Camper, Fred. "1966 - 1967" in A History of the American Avant-Garde Cinema. New York: The American Federation of Arts, 1976. (on Samadhi)

Cassady, Carolyn. Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg. Penguin, 1991.

Curtis, David. Experimental Cinema: A Fifty-Year Evolution. London: Studio Vista, 1971.

D-Fuse. VJ: Audio-Visual Art and VJ Culture. Laurence King, 2006.

Eisenberg, Adam. "Low Tech Effects: The Right Stuff" in Cinefex 14 (October 1983). Excerpt.

Giannetti, Lewis. Understanding Movies. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1982 (Third Edition)

Grunenberg, Christopher, Ed. Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era. London: Tate Publishing, 2005.

Haller, Robert. Galaxy: Avant-Garde Film-makers Look Across Space and Time. New York: Anthology Film Archives, 2001.

Hein, Birgit. Film im Underground. Verlag Ullstein, 1971.

Igliori, Paola. "Interview with Jordan Belson" in American Magus: Harry Smith A Modern Alchemist. New York: InanOut Press, 1996.

James, David E. Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties. Princeton University Press, 1989.

Kael, Pauline. KISS KISS BANG BANG. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, Little Brown & Co.,1968. 12-13.

Kaiser, Henry. The Visionary Art of Jordan Belson. San Francisco Bay Guardian, 1998.

Keefer, Cindy. "Space Light Art" - Early Abstract Cinema and Multimedia, 1900-1959. White Noise (Melbourne: Australian Centre for the Moving Image, 2005). Exhibition Catalog.

Kimmelman, Michael. What Music might look like as Modern Art. New York Times, July 6, 2005.

LeGrice, Malcolm. Abstract Film and Beyond. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1977

MacDonald, Scott.

----"Interview with Jordan Belson" in A Critical Cinema 3: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

----cinema 16: Documents Toward a History of the Film Society. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.

----Art in Cinema: Documents Toward a History of the Film Society. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006.

----Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor. University of California Press, 2008.

Marche, Jordan D. II. Theatres of Time and Space: American Planetaria, 1930-1970. Rutgers University Press, 2005.

Milutis, Joe. Ether: The Nothing That Connects Everything. University of Minnesota Press, 2006.

Moritz, William.

----"Non-Objective Film: The Second Generation." In Film as Film, Formal Experiment in Film, 1910 - 1975. London: Hayward Gallery/Arts Council, 1979. Belson Excerpt

----"Abstract Film and Color Music." in The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art Exhibition Catalog). New York: Abbeville Press, 1986. Belson excerpt

----Jordan Belson Biography In L'art du Mouvement 1919-1996, ed. Jean-Michel Bouhours, Cinema du Musee national d'art moderne (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 1996) (English translation online)

----Jordan Belson, Last of the Great Masters. Animation Journal. Orange, CA: Chapman University, 1999.

----Optical Poetry: The Life and Work of Oskar Fischinger. John Libbey Publishing and Indiana University Press, 2004. pp. 168-169

Pike, Robert Marvin. A Critical Study of the West Coast Experimental Film Movement. MA Thesis submitted to UCLA, July 1960.

----"The West Coast Experimental Scene." Scenario, Vol 1, no. 2. East Rockaway, NY, 1960

Renan, Sheldon. An Introduction to the American Underground Film. London: Studio Vista, 1968; New York: Dutton, 1967.

Scheugl, Hans and Ernst Schmidt Jr. Eine Subgeschichte des Films. Lexikon des Avantgarde-, Experimental- und Undergroundfilms (2 vols). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1974.

Sitney, P. Adams. Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943-1978. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. (note: Belson is included in all 3 editions of this book)

Sitney, P. Adams, Ed. The Essential Cinema: Essays on the films in the collection of Anthology Film Archives. New York: Anthology Film Archives and New York University Press, 1975.

Sturhahn, Larry. "The FilmArt of Jordan Belson." Filmmakers Newsletter 8, No 7, May 1975. Excerpts

Tan, Ying. The Unknown Art of Jordan Belson. Animation Journal. Maureen Furniss, Ed. Orange, CA: Chapman University, Spring 1999.

Time Magazine. The Sick Machine. February 2, 1959.

Wees, William. In Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Youngblood, Gene. "The Cosmic Cinema of Jordan Belson." In Expanded Cinema. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1970. Color Plates. Hosted online by Vasulka Archive.

----"The Cosmic Cinema of Jordan Belson." Film Culture Reader, P. Adams Sitney, Ed., Spring 1970

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Belson and Vortex Concerts:

Vortex 4 program notes

Vortex 5 program notes

Vortex LP liner notes, Folkways 1959

"Vortex Artists." The History of Experimental Music in Northern California.

Electronic Kabuki Mambo, CD reissue of Vortex LP. Locust Music, 2002

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Recent Press

Sight and Sound - DVD Review by Tom Charity. London: British Film Institute, January 2008.

filmjourney.org - Review of Jordan Belson: Essential Films DVD by Doug Cummings, October 5, 2007

The 213 - Review of Jordan Belson: Essential Films DVD by Brad Glanden, 2007

New York Magazine. A Real Bummer, Review of Summer of Love exhibition by Jerry Saltz. June, 2007

New York Times, With Music for the Eye and Color for the Ear, July 1, 2005

Wired, Life After Darth, Issue 13.05, May 2005

Artforum, 2005 (Summer and October issues)