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. 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
all 87
Movies 87
Director 75
Producer 2
self 1
Alchemy (2021)
Belle du Jour (2021)
Encounters in Light (2020)
Oz (2019)
The Ogre's Garden (2019)
Delirium (2018)
Time Travel (2017)
Entr’acte III (2017)
Night Light (2016)
The Apoplectic Walrus (2015)
The Apoplectic Walrus (2015)
Entr'acte II (2015)
Entr' Acte (2014)
Driving Demons (2014)
Inferno (2014)
Solar Sight III (2013)
After the Circus (2013)
Solar Sight II (2012)
Solar Sight (2011)
Beyond Enchantment (2010)
Cosmic Alchemy (2010)
Circus Savage (2009)
The Miracle of Don Cristobal (2008)
Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass (2008)
Silent Sonatas (2007)
Poet's Dream (2005)
Enid's Idyll (2004)
Chateau/Poyet (2004)
The Loons On Golden Pond (2003)
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)
Postcard from San Miguel (1996)
Star of Day (1993)
The Grove (1993)
The Black Oud (1992)
The Visible Compendium (1991)
Tapestry (1988)
Sophie's Place (1986)
Adagio (1983)
Winter Light (1983)
In a Summer Garden (1982)
Masquerade (1981)
Carabosse (1980)
Finds of the Fortnight (1980)
Moonlight Sonata (1979)
Cornell, 1965 (1978)
Ancestors (1978)
Visions of a City (1978)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1977)
The Apparition (1976)
Sincerity II (1975)
Once Upon a Time (1974)
Orb (1973)
The Sacred Art of Tibet (1972)
Hildur and the Magician (1970)
Our Lady of the Sphere (1969)
The Old House, Passing (1967)
For Life, Against the War (1967)
Rodia-Estudiantina (1966)
Big Sur: The Ladies (1966)
Hamfat Asar (1965)
Gymnopédies (1965)
The Dream Merchant (1965)
A Legend for Fountains (1965)
Ein Traum der Liebenden (1964)
Duo Concertantes (1964)
Jewel Face (1964)
Johnnie (1964)
Pink Swine! (1962)
The 40 and 1 Nights (1961)
Portrait of Sharon (1960)
The Soccer Game (1960)
Hymn in Praise of the Sun (1960)
The Seasons’ Change (1960)
Minerva Looks Out into the Zodiac (1959)
Triptych in Four Parts (1958)
Spectre Mystagogic (1957)
Water Light (1956)
3 (1956)
The One Romantic Venture of Edward (1956)
Trumpit (1956)
Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding (1955)
Undertow (1955)
The Extraordinary Child (1954)
Desistfilm (1954)
Man Is in Pain (1954)
Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection (1953)
Three by Cornell (1940)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1934-01-01 (90 years old)
Birth PlaceDenver, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsLawrence C. Jordan, Larry Jordan
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship
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