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