Lawrence Jordan
Directing
1934-01-01 · 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.
Filmography
Reve d'Or
2024 · Movie
Hommage
2024 · Movie
Harper's Bazar
2022 · Movie
Alchemy
2021 · Movie
Belle du Jour
2021 · Movie
Encounters in Light
2020 · Movie
Oz
2019 · Movie
The Ogre's Garden
2019 · Movie
Delirium
2018 · Movie
Time Travel
2017 · Movie
Entr’acte III
2017 · Movie
Night Light
2016 · Movie
The Apoplectic Walrus
2015 · Movie
The Apoplectic Walrus
2015 · Movie
Entr'acte II
2015 · Movie
Entr'Acte
2014 · Movie
Inferno
2014 · Movie
Driving Demons
2014 · Movie
Solar Sight III
2013 · Movie
After the Circus
2013 · Movie
Solar Sight II
2012 · Movie
Solar Sight
2011 · Movie
Beyond Enchantment
2010 · Movie
Cosmic Alchemy
2010 · Movie
Circus Savage
2009 · Movie
The Miracle of Don Cristobal
2008 · Movie
Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass
2008 · Movie
Silent Sonatas
2007 · Movie
Poet's Dream
2005 · Movie
Enid's Idyll
2004 · Movie
Chateau/Poyet
2004 · Movie
Postcard from San Miguel
1996 · Movie
The Grove
1993 · Movie
Star of Day
1993 · Movie
The Black Oud
1992 · Movie
The Visible Compendium
1991 · Movie
Tapestry
1988 · Movie
Sophie's Place
1986 · Movie
Adagio
1983 · Movie
Winter Light
1983 · Movie
In a Summer Garden
1982 · Movie
Masquerade
1981 · Movie
Carabosse
1980 · Movie
Finds of the Fortnight
1980 · Movie
Moonlight Sonata
1979 · Movie
Cornell, 1965
1978 · Movie
Ancestors
1978 · Movie
Visions of a City
1978 · Movie
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1977 · Movie
The Apparition
1976 · Movie
Orb
1973 · Movie
Once Upon a Time
1973 · Movie
The Sacred Art of Tibet
1972 · Movie
Three by Cornell
1972 · Movie
Hildur and the Magician
1970 · Movie
Our Lady of the Sphere
1969 · Movie
The Old House, Passing
1967 · Movie
For Life, Against the War
1967 · Movie
Big Sur: The Ladies
1966 · Movie
Rodia-Estudiantina
1966 · Movie
Hamfat Asar
1965 · Movie
Gymnopédies
1965 · Movie
A Legend for Fountains
1965 · Movie
The Dream Merchant
1965 · Movie
Ein Traum der Liebenden
1964 · Movie
Duo Concertantes
1964 · Movie
Johnnie
1964 · Movie
Jewel Face
1964 · Movie
Pink Swine!
1963 · Movie
The Forty and One Nights
1961 · Movie
Hymn in Praise of the Sun
1960 · Movie
The Soccer Game
1960 · Movie
Portrait of Sharon
1960 · Movie
The Season's Change
1960 · Movie
Minerva Looks Out into the Zodiac
1959 · Movie
Triptych in Four Parts
1958 · Movie
Spectre Mystagogic
1957 · Movie
Water Light
1956 · Movie
Three
1956 · Movie
Trumpit
1956 · Movie
The One Romantic Venture of Edward
1956 · Movie
Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding
1955 · Movie
Undertow
1955 · Movie
The Extraordinary Child
1954 · Movie
Desistfilm
1954 · Movie
Man Is in Pain
1954 · Movie
Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection
1953 · Movie
The Egg
Movie
Untitled Early Film
Movie