Directing
Lawrence Jordan
EN, XX cinema · 90 credits
Born
1 January 1934 (age 92)
Birthplace
Denver, Colorado, USA
Also known as Lawrence C. Jordan · Larry 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.
Known for
Filmography
Untitled Early Film
Director
The Egg
The Egg
Director
Reve d'Or
Director
Hommage
Director
Harper's Bazar
Animation, Director
Belle du Jour
Director, Editor
Alchemy
Director
Encounters in Light
as The Filmmaker
Oz
Director
Delirium
Director
Entr’acte III
Director
Time Travel
Director
Night Light
Director
Entr'Acte
Director, Editor, Director of Photography
After the Circus
Director, Editor, Cinematography
Solar Sight III
Writer, Director, Editor
Solar Sight II
Director
Solar Sight
Director
Cosmic Alchemy
Director
Beyond Enchantment
Director
Circus Savage
Director
Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass
2008
Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass
Director
Silent Sonatas
Director
Enid's Idyll
Director
The Grove
Director, Cinematography, Editor
Star of Day
Director, Cinematography, Editor
The Black Oud
Director, Cinematography, Editor
Tapestry
as Himself, Director
Sophie's Place
Director
In a Summer Garden
Director
Masquerade
Director
Carabosse
Director
Cornell, 1965
1978
Cornell, 1965
as Narrator (voice), Director of Photography, Director, Editor
Visions of a City
Director
Ancestors
Director, Animation
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Director, Animation, Editor, Writer, Adaptation, Producer
The Apparition
Director
Once Upon a Time
Director, Animation
Orb
Director
The Sacred Art of Tibet
1972
The Sacred Art of Tibet
Director, Editor, Cinematography, Producer
Hildur and the Magician
Director, Cinematography, Editor, Writer, Producer
Big Sur: The Ladies
Director
Gymnopédies
Director
A Legend for Fountains
Co-Director
Johnnie
Director
Jewel Face
Director
Duo Concertantes
Director
Spectre Mystagogic
Director
Three
Director
Trumpit
Director
Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding
1955
Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding
Actor
Undertow
Director
Man Is in Pain
Director
