Background
Jane Conger Belson Shimané was born in Missouri.
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She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, where she met the artist Jordan Belson.
Career
Though she used his name, they never legally married. Her first film, Logos, premiered in 1957 and was screened at festivals in North America, Europe, and Latin America. In 1959 she made Odds & Ends, a short animated film that pokes fun at the avant-garde film culture of the 1950s.
To make the film, she combined recycled travel and advertising footage with her own animations — made from paper cutouts, color fields, and line drawings — and added a "faux hipster" narration by Henry Jacobs, with bongos playing in the background.
(Jacobs is credited as "Rheny Bojacs," an anagram of his name) The narrator natters pretentiously about poetry and jazz, contradicting himself at every turn, one moment claiming that "money doesn"t count" and the next mentioning the possibility of grants and subsidies. Other winners that year included Robert Breer, Bruce Conner, Editor Emshwiller, and Stan Vanderbeek.
lieutenant is included on Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986, a Digital Video Disc set published in 2008 by the National Film Preservation Foundation. Shimané apparently stopped making films soon after parting with Belson.
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