Tonight we reprise The iotaCenter's KINETICA 3 program celebrating the Beat Generation with a selection of films by the San Francisco film artists of that era. Hy Hirsh's films include a pioneer oscilloscope film Eneri; the lush Autumn Spectrum, filmed in the canals of Amsterdam; and Scratch Pad, in which Hirsh painted and scratched imagery over elaborate optically printed footage. Younger San Francisco filmmakers, including Jordan Belson and Harry Smith, learned filmmaking techniques and borrowed equipment from Hirsh. Belson's Mandala synchs Balinese gamelan music with images painted on long scrolls, while Caravan captures the “on the road” mantra of the Beat Generation. Harry Smith's Film No. 3, painted directly on blank film, was sometimes screened at the jazz club Bop City as a live light show. Bay Area painter Patricia Marx used details from her paintings cut to Dizzy Gillespie jazz for Things to Come. In the later fifties, Belson began producing Vortex Concerts at the Planetarium in San Francisco. James Whitney's Yantra was one of the pieces shown on the planetarium dome. At the same time, James's older brother John was inventing a special animation stand controlled by an analog computer. His film Catalog demonstrates the different effects he could create. In New York, Shirley Clarke synched her lyrical Bridges-Go-Round with a jazz track.