He has also created a number of experimental filmed dance works, such as Axis: Anatomy of Space (2017), which featured dancers from the Royal New Zealand Ballet, and had its world premiere in the Planetarium of the Otago Museum (Dunedin).
[7] Belton's 2014 work Satellite was commissioned by the Royal New Zealand Ballet; dancers performed while holding round discs related to kinetic sculptures by sonic artist Jim Murphy.
Reviewer Hahna Briggs wrote "The film shows the infiniteness of the universe through the simultaneous imploding and exploding of bodies in space and time.
"[8] Axis has subsequently been screened (as an Official Selection) in Festivals in Singapore, Colombia, Korea, Hong Kong, Auckland and San Francisco.
[10] His most recent collaborative work, still in progress, is Ad Parnassum - purapurawhetū, made with composer Dame Gillian Karawe Whitehead, along with the New Zealand String Quartet and the use of Taonga Pūoro.
[13] Also in 2008, Belton received the prize for "most innovative work" for After Durer at the XV Festival Internazionale di Videodanza, at the Museo Madre, in Naples.
[13][16][17] In her review of Belton's work, Catherine Pattison describes him as one of only two New Zealand dance film-makers to make it on the international stage (the other being Shona McCullagh).