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Lawrence Jordan
Director

Lawrence Jordan

1 Jan 1934Born
92Age
88Credits
Denver, Colorado, USABirthplace

Biography

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.

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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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Filmography

The 80 most recent of 88 credits.

  1. TBAUntitled Early FilmFilm: Director
  2. TBAThe EggFilm: Director
  3. 2024Reve d'OrFilm: Director
  4. 2024HommageFilm: Director
  5. 2022Harper's BazarFilm: Director
  6. 2021AlchemyFilm: Director
  7. 2021Belle du JourFilm: Director
  8. 2020Encounters in LightFilm: The Filmmaker
  9. 2019OzFilm: Director
  10. 2019The Ogre's GardenFilm: Director
  11. 2018DeliriumFilm: Director
  12. 2017Entr’acte IIIFilm: Director
  13. 2017Time TravelFilm: Director
  14. 2016Night LightFilm: Director
  15. 2015The Apoplectic WalrusFilm: Director
  16. 2015The Apoplectic WalrusFilm: Director
  17. 2015Entr'acte IIFilm: Director
  18. 2014Entr'ActeFilm: Director
  19. 2014Driving DemonsFilm: Director
  20. 2014InfernoFilm: Director
  21. 2013Solar Sight IIIFilm: Writer, Director
  22. 2013After the CircusFilm: Director
  23. 2012Solar Sight IIFilm: Director
  24. 2011Solar SightFilm: Director
  25. 2010Beyond EnchantmentFilm: Director
  26. 2010Cosmic AlchemyFilm: Director
  27. 2009Circus SavageFilm: Director
  28. 2008The Miracle of Don CristobalFilm: Director
  29. 2008Blue Skies Beyond the Looking GlassFilm: Director
  30. 2007Silent SonatasFilm: Director
  31. 2005Poet's DreamFilm: Director
  32. 2004Enid's IdyllFilm: Director
  33. 2004Chateau/PoyetFilm: Director
  34. 1996Postcard from San MiguelFilm: Director
  35. 1993The GroveFilm: Director
  36. 1993Star of DayFilm: Director
  37. 1992The Black OudFilm: Director
  38. 1991The Visible CompendiumFilm: Director
  39. 1988TapestryFilm: Director
  40. 1986Sophie's PlaceFilm: Director
  41. 1983Winter LightFilm: Director
  42. 1983AdagioFilm: Director
  43. 1982In a Summer GardenFilm: Director
  44. 1981MasqueradeFilm: Director
  45. 1980CarabosseFilm: Director
  46. 1980Finds of the FortnightFilm: Director
  47. 1979Moonlight SonataFilm: Director
  48. 1978Cornell, 1965Film: Narrator (voice), Director
  49. 1978Visions of a CityFilm: Director
  50. 1978AncestorsFilm: Director
  51. 1977The Rime of the Ancient MarinerFilm: Director, Writer
  52. 1976The ApparitionFilm: Director
  53. 1973OrbFilm: Director
  54. 1973Once Upon a TimeFilm: Director
  55. 1972The Sacred Art of TibetFilm: Director
  56. 1972Three by CornellFilm: Director
  57. 1970Hildur and the MagicianFilm: Director, Writer
  58. 1969Our Lady of the SphereFilm: Director
  59. 1967The Old House, PassingFilm: Director
  60. 1967For Life, Against the WarFilm: Director
  61. 1966Rodia-EstudiantinaFilm: Director
  62. 1966Big Sur: The LadiesFilm: Director
  63. 1965Hamfat AsarFilm: Director
  64. 1965GymnopédiesFilm: Director
  65. 1965The Dream MerchantFilm: Director
  66. 1964Ein Traum der LiebendenFilm: Director
  67. 1964Duo ConcertantesFilm: Director
  68. 1964JohnnieFilm: Director
  69. 1964Jewel FaceFilm: Director
  70. 1963Pink Swine!Film: Director
  71. 1961The Forty and One NightsFilm: Director
  72. 1960Portrait of SharonFilm: Director
  73. 1960Hymn in Praise of the SunFilm: Director
  74. 1960The Season's ChangeFilm: Director
  75. 1960The Soccer GameFilm: Director
  76. 1959Minerva Looks Out into the ZodiacFilm: Director
  77. 1958Triptych in Four PartsFilm: Director
  78. 1957Spectre MystagogicFilm: Director
  79. 1956Water LightFilm: Director
  80. 1956ThreeFilm: Director

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