Known For
Directing
Born
Jan 01, 1934
Place of Birth
Denver, Colorado, USA
Credits
90 titles
Lawrence Jordan
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.
Known For
Filmography
Reve d'Or
Director
Hommage
Director
Harper's Bazar
Director
Alchemy
Director
Belle du Jour
Director
Encounters in Light
The Filmmaker
Oz
Director
The Ogre's Garden
Director
Delirium
Director
Time Travel
Director
Entr’acte III
Director
Night Light
Director
The Apoplectic Walrus
Director
The Apoplectic Walrus
Director
Entr'acte II
Director
Entr'Acte
Director
Driving Demons
Director
Inferno
Director
Solar Sight III
Director
After the Circus
Director
Solar Sight II
Director
Solar Sight
Director
Beyond Enchantment
Director
Cosmic Alchemy
Director
Circus Savage
Director
The Miracle of Don Cristobal
Director
Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass
Director
Silent Sonatas
Director
Poet's Dream
Director
Enid's Idyll
Director
Chateau/Poyet
Director
Birth of a Nation
Self
Postcard from San Miguel
Director
The Grove
Director
Star of Day
Director
The Black Oud
Director
The Visible Compendium
Director
Tapestry
Himself
Sophie's Place
Director
Adagio
Director
Winter Light
Director
In a Summer Garden
Director
Masquerade
Director
Carabosse
Director
Finds of the Fortnight
Director
Moonlight Sonata
Director
Cornell, 1965
Narrator (voice)
Ancestors
Director
Visions of a City
Director
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Director