Lawrence Jordan
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1934 (age 92)
- Birthplace
- Denver, Colorado, USA
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.
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Untitled Early Film
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The Egg
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Reve d'Or
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Hommage
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Harper's Bazar
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Belle du Jour
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Alchemy
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The Ogre's Garden
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Oz
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Delirium
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Entr’acte III
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Time Travel
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Night Light
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The Apoplectic Walrus
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Entr'acte II
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The Apoplectic Walrus
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Entr'Acte
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Driving Demons
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Inferno
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After the Circus
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Solar Sight III
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Solar Sight II
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Solar Sight
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Cosmic Alchemy
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Beyond Enchantment
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Circus Savage
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Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass
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The Miracle of Don Cristobal
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Silent Sonatas
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Poet's Dream
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Enid's Idyll
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Chateau/Poyet
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Postcard from San Miguel
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The Grove
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Star of Day
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The Black Oud
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The Visible Compendium
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Tapestry
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Sophie's Place
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Winter Light
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Adagio
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In a Summer Garden
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Masquerade
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Carabosse
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Finds of the Fortnight
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Moonlight Sonata
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Cornell, 1965
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Visions of a City
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Ancestors
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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The Apparition
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Once Upon a Time
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Orb
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The Sacred Art of Tibet
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Three by Cornell
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Hildur and the Magician
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Our Lady of the Sphere
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The Old House, Passing
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For Life, Against the War
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Rodia-Estudiantina
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Big Sur: The Ladies
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Hamfat Asar
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Gymnopédies
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A Legend for Fountains
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The Dream Merchant
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Ein Traum der Liebenden
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Johnnie
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Jewel Face
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Duo Concertantes
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Pink Swine!
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The Season's Change
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The Forty and One Nights
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Portrait of Sharon
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Hymn in Praise of the Sun
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The Soccer Game
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Minerva Looks Out into the Zodiac
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Triptych in Four Parts
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Spectre Mystagogic
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Three
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Trumpit
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Water Light
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The One Romantic Venture of Edward
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Undertow
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Man Is in Pain
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