"Last week saw the demise at age 90 of Allie Light, the San Francisco documentarian who with late partner Irving Saraf produced, directed, sometimes also edited and wrote decades of significant nonfiction films, winning an Oscar (for 1991's In the Shadow of the Stars, about the SF Opera Chorus), two Emmys and other laurels en route. Their subject matter was extraordinarily wide-ranging,"
"Belson (1926-2011) was a Chicago-born childhood SF emigre who studied painting in SF Art Institute, then UC Berkeley's fine arts programs. He was among many young Bay Area artists who attended the "Art in Cinema" series at San Francisco Museum of Art in the post-WW2 years, absorbing foreign and homegrown experimental films that would help them shape a West Coast avant-garde in various media."
Allie Light died at age 90 after a decades-long career in San Francisco documentary filmmaking with partner Irving Saraf, earning an Oscar, two Emmys and other awards. Their films covered mental illness, clerical activism, health, crime, education, poverty and folk artists, often emphasizing how U.S. governmental policy affects individuals. A three-day symposium titled "Jordan Belson: COSMOGENESIS" will honor Belson, co-presented by San Francisco Cinematheque, BAMPFA and Gray Area. Belson studied painting in San Francisco and at UC Berkeley, engaged with the "Art in Cinema" series, collaborated on early experimental films and staged planetarium "Vortex Concerts" that prefigured psychedelic light shows.
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