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
Reve d'Or2024 · Director	Director
Hommage2024 · Director	Director
Harper's Bazar2022 · Director	Director
Alchemy2021 · Director	Director
Belle du Jour2021 · Director	Director
Encounters in Light2020 · The Filmmaker	The Filmmaker
Oz2019 · Director	Director
The Ogre's Garden2019 · Director	Director
Delirium2018 · Director	Director
Entr’acte III2017 · Director	Director
Time Travel2017 · 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
DDriving Demons2014 · Director	Director
IInferno2014 · 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 · Himself, Director	Himself, 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