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Lawrence Jordan

Directing·Jan 1, 1934·Denver, Colorado, USA

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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.

Film	Credit
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Hommage2024 · Director	Director
Harper's Bazar2022 · Director	Director
Alchemy2021 · Director	Director
Belle du Jour2021 · Director	Director
Oz2019 · Director	Director
The Ogre's Garden2019 · Director	Director
Delirium2018 · Director	Director
Time Travel2017 · Director	Director
Entr’acte III2017 · Director	Director
Night Light2016 · Director	Director
The Apoplectic Walrus2015 · Director	Director
The Apoplectic Walrus2015 · Director	Director
EEntr'acte II2015 · Director	Director
Entr'Acte2014 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
IInferno2014 · Director	Director
DDriving Demons2014 · Director	Director
Solar Sight III2013 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
After the Circus2013 · Director	Director
Solar Sight II2012 · Director	Director
Solar Sight2011 · Director	Director
Beyond Enchantment2010 · Director	Director
Cosmic Alchemy2010 · Director	Director
Circus Savage2009 · Director	Director
TThe Miracle of Don Cristobal2008 · Director	Director
BBlue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass2008 · Director	Director
Silent Sonatas2007 · Director	Director
PPoet's Dream2005 · Director	Director
Enid's Idyll2004 · Director	Director
CChateau/Poyet2004 · Director	Director
Postcard from San Miguel1996 · Director	Director
The Grove1993 · Director	Director
Star of Day1993 · Director	Director
The Black Oud1992 · Director	Director
TThe Visible Compendium1991 · Director	Director
Tapestry1988 · Director	Director
Sophie's Place1986 · Director	Director
WWinter Light1983 · Director	Director
AAdagio1983 · Director	Director
In a Summer Garden1982 · Director	Director
Masquerade1981 · Director	Director
Carabosse1980 · Director	Director
Finds of the Fortnight1980 · Director	Director
MMoonlight Sonata1979 · Director	Director
CCornell, 19651978 · Narrator (voice), Director of Photography, Director	Narrator (voice), Director of Photography, Director
Visions of a City1978 · Director	Director
Ancestors1978 · Director	Director
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner1977 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
The Apparition1976 · Director	Director
Orb1973 · Director	Director
Once Upon a Time1973 · Director	Director
TThe Sacred Art of Tibet1972 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Three by Cornell1972 · Director	Director
Hildur and the Magician1970 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
Our Lady of the Sphere1969 · Director	Director
The Old House, Passing1967 · Director	Director
For Life, Against the War1967 · Director	Director
Big Sur: The Ladies1966 · Director	Director
RRodia-Estudiantina1966 · Director	Director
HHamfat Asar1965 · Director	Director
Gymnopédies1965 · Director	Director
The Dream Merchant1965 · Director	Director
Ein Traum der Liebenden1964 · Director	Director
Duo Concertantes1964 · Director	Director
Johnnie1964 · Director	Director
Jewel Face1964 · Director	Director
PPink Swine!1963 · Director	Director
The Forty and One Nights1961 · Director	Director
PPortrait of Sharon1960 · Director	Director
Hymn in Praise of the Sun1960 · Director	Director
The Season's Change1960 · Director	Director
The Soccer Game1960 · Director	Director
Minerva Looks Out into the Zodiac1959 · Director	Director
TTriptych in Four Parts1958 · Director	Director
Spectre Mystagogic1957 · Director	Director
WWater Light1956 · Director	Director
Three1956 · Director	Director
Trumpit1956 · Director	Director
The One Romantic Venture of Edward1956 · Director	Director
Undertow1955 · Director	Director
Man Is in Pain1954 · Director	Director
Untitled Early FilmDirector	Director
TThe EggDirector	Director