Cycles brings together 16mm film with Stephen Beck’s Direct Video Synthesizer imagery via a proprietary process Beck referred to as “editation.” Beck also composed the soundtrack to the film, which is made of one sequence repeated 12 times, with both artists contributing variations on each pass.
Direction
Beck's 'editation' — film and video having unholy babies.
Sound
Synthesizer score that predates ambient as we know it.
Director
Jordan Belson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stephen Beck invented the Direct Video Synthesizer in the early 1970s, creating imagery without cameras by manipulating electronic signals directly.
Belson and Beck were part of a Bay Area avant-garde scene that treated film as consciousness-expansion technology — this played at museums, not multiplexes.
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