Lawrence Jordan
Directing
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
Directing84
movieReve d'Or
2024
Director
movieHommage
2024
Director
movieHarper's Bazar
2022
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movieAlchemy
2021
Director
movieBelle du Jour
2021
Director
movieOz
2019
Director
movieThe Ogre's Garden
2019
Director
movieDelirium
2018
Director
movieTime Travel
2017
Director
movieEntr’acte III
2017
Director
movieNight Light
2016
Director
movieThe Apoplectic Walrus
2015
Director
movieThe Apoplectic Walrus
2015
Director
movieEntr'Acte
2014
Director
Inferno
2014
Director
movieSolar Sight III
2013
Director
movieAfter the Circus
2013
Director
movieSolar Sight II
2012
Director
movieSolar Sight
2011
Director
movieBeyond Enchantment
2010
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movieCosmic Alchemy
2010
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movieCircus Savage
2009
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movieSilent Sonatas
2007
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movieEnid's Idyll
2004
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movieThe Grove
1993
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movieStar of Day
1993
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movieThe Black Oud
1992
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movieTapestry
1988
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movieSophie's Place
1986
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Adagio
1983
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movieIn a Summer Garden
1982
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movieMasquerade
1981
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movieCarabosse
1980
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movieFinds of the Fortnight
1980
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movieVisions of a City
1978
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movieAncestors
1978
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movieThe Apparition
1976
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movieOrb
1973
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movieOnce Upon a Time
1973
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movieThree by Cornell
1972
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movieHildur and the Magician
1970
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movieOur Lady of the Sphere
1969
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movieThe Old House, Passing
1967
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movieBig Sur: The Ladies
1966
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Hamfat Asar
1965
Director
movieGymnopédies
1965
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movieA Legend for Fountains
1965
Co-Director
movieThe Dream Merchant
1965
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movieEin Traum der Liebenden
1964
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movieDuo Concertantes
1964
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movieJohnnie
1964
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movieJewel Face
1964
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Pink Swine!
1963
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movieThe Season's Change
1960
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movieThe Soccer Game
1960
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movieSpectre Mystagogic
1957
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Water Light
1956
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movieThree
1956
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movieTrumpit
1956
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movieUndertow
1955
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movieMan Is in Pain
1954
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movieUntitled Early Film
Director
The Egg
Director
Editing12
movieBelle du Jour
2021
Editor
movieEntr'Acte
2014
Editor
movieSolar Sight III
2013
Editor
movieThe Grove
1993
Editor
movieStar of Day
1993
Editor
movieThe Black Oud
1992
Editor
Acting7
movieEncounters in Light
2020
The Filmmaker
movieTapestry
1988
Himself
Cornell, 1965
1978
Narrator (voice)
Crew6
movieAfter the Circus
2013
Cinematography
movieThe Grove
1993
Cinematography
movieStar of Day
1993
Cinematography
movieThe Black Oud
1992
Cinematography
The Sacred Art of Tibet
1972
Cinematography
movieHildur and the Magician
1970
Cinematography
Visual Effects4
Production3
Writing3
movieSolar Sight III
2013
Writer
movieThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1977
Writer, Adaptation
Camera2
movieEntr'Acte
2014
Director of Photography
Cornell, 1965
1978
Director of Photography