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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Masquerade
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Orb
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Enid's Idyll
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Once Upon a Time
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Belle du Jour
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Belle du Jour
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Cosmic Alchemy
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Trumpit
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Man Is in Pain
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Big Sur: The Ladies
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Portrait of Sharon
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Pink Swine!
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Triptych in Four Parts
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Rodia-Estudiantina
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Alchemy
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The Sacred Art of Tibet
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Visions of a City
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The Black Oud
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Winter Light
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Postcard from San Miguel
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In a Summer Garden
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The Grove
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Cornell, 1965
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Water Light
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The Sacred Art of Tibet
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Star of Day
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The Visible Compendium
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Cornell, 1965
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Adagio
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Tapestry
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Cornell, 1965
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Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass
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The Sacred Art of Tibet
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A Legend for Fountains
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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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Inferno
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After the Circus
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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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The Miracle of Don Cristobal
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After the Circus
(Cinematography)
Solar Sight III
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Solar Sight III
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Entr'Acte
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Entr'Acte
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Johnnie
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Finds of the Fortnight
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Hymn in Praise of the Sun
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The Season's Change
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Night Light
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Jewel Face
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Silent Sonatas
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The One Romantic Venture of Edward
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Undertow
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The Apparition
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Ancestors
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The Soccer Game
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Entr'acte II
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The forty and one nights
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Hildur and the Magician
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Time Travel
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The Dream Merchant
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Entr’acte III
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The Black Oud
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The Black Oud
(Cinematography)
Star of Day
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The Grove
(Cinematography)
Star of Day
(Cinematography)
The Grove
(Editor)
For Life, Against the War
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Hildur and the Magician
(Editor)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(Adaptation)
Hildur and the Magician
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Hildur and the Magician
(Cinematography)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Hildur and the Magician
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(Animation)
The Sacred Art of Tibet
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Reve d'Or
(Director)
Delirium
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Ancestors
(Animation)
The Apoplectic Walrus
(Director)
Harper's Bazar
(Animation)
Harper's Bazar
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Oz
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Three by Cornell
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Once Upon a Time
(Animation)
Untitled Early Film
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Hommage
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The Egg
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Films For Freedom
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