Lawrence Jordan
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.
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Films (90)
Reve d'Or
2024 · Director
Hommage
2024 · Director
Harper's Bazar
2022 · Director, Animation
Alchemy
2021 · Director
Belle du Jour
2021 · Director, Editor
Encounters in Light
2020 · The Filmmaker
Oz
2019 · Director
The Ogre's Garden
2019 · Director
Delirium
2018 · Director
Time Travel
2017 · Director
Entr’acte III
2017 · Director
Night Light
2016 · Director
The Apoplectic Walrus
2015 · Director
The Apoplectic Walrus
2015 · Director
Entr'acte II
2015 · Director
Entr'Acte
2014 · Director, Director of Photography, Editor
Inferno
2014 · Director
Driving Demons
2014 · Director
Solar Sight III
2013 · Director, Writer, Editor
After the Circus
2013 · Director, Editor, Cinematography
Solar Sight II
2012 · Director
Solar Sight
2011 · Director
Beyond Enchantment
2010 · Director
Cosmic Alchemy
2010 · Director
Circus Savage
2009 · Director
The Miracle of Don Cristobal
2008 · Director, Editor
Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass
2008 · Director
Silent Sonatas
2007 · Director
Poet's Dream
2005 · Director
Enid's Idyll
2004 · Director
Chateau/Poyet
2004 · Director
Birth of a Nation
1997 · Self
Postcard from San Miguel
1996 · Director
The Grove
1993 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
Star of Day
1993 · Director, Editor, Cinematography
The Black Oud
1992 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
The Visible Compendium
1991 · Director
Tapestry
1988 · Himself, Director
Sophie's Place
1986 · Director
Adagio
1983 · Director
Winter Light
1983 · Director
In a Summer Garden
1982 · Director
Masquerade
1981 · Director
Carabosse
1980 · Director
Finds of the Fortnight
1980 · Director
Moonlight Sonata
1979 · Director
Cornell, 1965
1978 · Narrator (voice), Director, Editor, Director of Photography
Visions of a City
1978 · Director
Ancestors
1978 · Director, Animation
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1977 · Director, Writer, Adaptation, Editor, Animation, Producer
The Apparition
1976 · Director
Orb
1973 · Director
Once Upon a Time
1973 · Director, Animation
The Sacred Art of Tibet
1972 · Director, Editor, Cinematography, Producer
Three by Cornell
1972 · Director
Hildur and the Magician
1970 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Cinematography
Our Lady of the Sphere
1969 · Director
The Old House, Passing
1967 · Director
For Life, Against the War
1967 · Director
Rodia-Estudiantina
1966 · Director
Big Sur: The Ladies
1966 · Director
Hamfat Asar
1965 · Director
Gymnopédies
1965 · Director
A Legend for Fountains
1965 · Co-Director
The Dream Merchant
1965 · Director
Ein Traum der Liebenden
1964 · Director
Johnnie
1964 · Director
Jewel Face
1964 · Director
The Season's Change
1963 · Director
Duo Concertantes
1963 · Director
Pink Swine!
1963 · Director
The Forty and One Nights
1961 · Director
Portrait of Sharon
1960 · Director
Hymn in Praise of the Sun
1960 · Director
The Soccer Game
1960 · Director
Minerva Looks Out into the Zodiac
1959 · Director
Triptych in Four Parts
1958 · Director
Spectre Mystagogic
1957 · Director
Water Light
1956 · Director
Three
1956 · Director
Trumpit
1956 · Director
The One Romantic Venture of Edward
1956 · Director
Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding
1955
Undertow
1955 · Director
The Extraordinary Child
1954
Desistfilm
1954
Man Is in Pain
1954 · Director
Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection
1953
Untitled Early Film
· Director
The Egg
· Director
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