Lawrence Jordan

Known for DirectingBorn 1934-01-01 (age 92)Denver, Colorado, USA

Known principally as a maverick spirit in the world of avant-garde American cinema, Lawrence Jordan played an important role in the late 1950s and early 1960s San Francisco art scene. Jordan has made over seventy experimental films, including a number of fanciful, filmic animations made from collaged cut outs of Victorian engravings. The animations extend dreamlike imagery of collaged landscape into a cinematic realm of transformation and free form symbolism. Jordan seeks to delve into the deep structures and Jungian connotations of the mythological images his films reference. His alchemical approach to imagery creates what he has called the “theater of the mind, which you construct. That is the Underworld... the realm of the imagination. You have to have a place to work with images.” Jordan founded the film department of the San Francisco Art institute in 1969 and taught there for over thirty years. He made his own box assemblages in Cornell ’s lyrically evocative style since the mid-1960s. Many feature ingenious mechanical and kinetic effects. He continues to make films and box collages at his home and studio in Petaluma where he has lived since 1978.Read more

Movies & web series

Oz

Winter Light

In a Summer Garden

Three

Solar Sight

Circus Savage

Hildur and the Magician

Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding

Masquerade

Visions of a City

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Enid's Idyll

Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection

Once Upon a Time

Cosmic Alchemy

A Legend for Fountains

For Life, Against the War

Big Sur: The Ladies

Spectre Mystagogic

The One Romantic Venture of Edward

Gymnopédies

The Extraordinary Child

Hamfat Asar

Beyond Enchantment

Desistfilm

Our Lady of the Sphere

Duo Concertantes

Carabosse

The Old House, Passing

Man Is in Pain

Sophie's Place

Star of Day

Moonlight Sonata

Trumpit

Water Light

Tapestry

The Visible Compendium

Pink Swine!

Reve d'Or

Hommage

Harper's Bazar

Belle du Jour

Alchemy

Encounters in Light

The Ogre's Garden

Delirium

Time Travel

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