Lawrence Jordan
Known for: Directing
Born: January 1, 1934
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
89 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
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Reve d'Or
2024
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Hommage
2024
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Harper's Bazar
2022
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Alchemy
2021
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Belle du Jour
2021
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Encounters in Light
2020
10.0
Oz
2019
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The Ogre's Garden
2019
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Delirium
2018
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Entr’acte III
2017
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Time Travel
2017
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Night Light
2016
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The Apoplectic Walrus
2015
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The Apoplectic Walrus
2015NR
Entr'acte II
2015
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Entr'Acte
2014NR
Driving Demons
2014NR
Inferno
2014
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Solar Sight III
2013
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After the Circus
2013
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Solar Sight II
2012
8.8
Solar Sight
2011
5.0
Beyond Enchantment
2010
5.7
Cosmic Alchemy
2010
8.8
Circus Savage
2009NR
The Miracle of Don Cristobal
2008NR
Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass
2008
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Silent Sonatas
2007NR
Poet's Dream
2005
6.3
Enid's Idyll
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Chateau/Poyet
2004
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Postcard from San Miguel
1996
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The Grove
1993
4.0
Star of Day
1993
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The Black Oud
19921.0
The Visible Compendium
1991
2.0
Tapestry
1988
4.4
Sophie's Place
198610.0
Winter Light
1983NR
Adagio
1983
10.0
In a Summer Garden
1982
8.0
Masquerade
1981
5.0
Carabosse
1980
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Finds of the Fortnight
19804.0
Moonlight Sonata
1979NR
Cornell, 1965
1978
8.0
Visions of a City
1978
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Ancestors
1978
7.5
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1977
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The Apparition
1976
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Orb
1973
6.5
Once Upon a Time
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The Sacred Art of Tibet
1972
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Three by Cornell
1972
9.0
Hildur and the Magician
1970
5.3
Our Lady of the Sphere
1969
5.0
The Old House, Passing
1967
6.0
For Life, Against the War
1967NR
Rodia-Estudiantina
1966
6.0
Big Sur: The Ladies
19665.6
Hamfat Asar
1965
5.8
Gymnopédies
1965
6.1
A Legend for Fountains
1965
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The Dream Merchant
1965
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Ein Traum der Liebenden
1964
5.2
Duo Concertantes
1964
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Johnnie
1964
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Jewel Face
19641.0
Pink Swine!
1963
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The Forty and One Nights
1961NR
Portrait of Sharon
1960
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Hymn in Praise of the Sun
1960
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The Season's Change
1960
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The Soccer Game
1960
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Minerva Looks Out into the Zodiac
1959NR
Triptych in Four Parts
1958
6.0
Spectre Mystagogic
19574.0
Water Light
1956
10.0
Three
1956
4.0
Trumpit
1956
6.0
The One Romantic Venture of Edward
19569.0
Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding
1955
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Undertow
1955
5.9
The Extraordinary Child
1954
5.5
Desistfilm
1954
5.0
Man Is in Pain
1954
6.8
Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection
1953
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Untitled Early Film
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The Egg
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