Lawrence Jordan

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1934-01-01 (90 years old)

Place of Birth Denver, Colorado, USA

Also Known As Lawrence C. Jordan, Larry Jordan

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

Director

2024
Reve d'Or

as Director

2022
Harper's Bazar

as Director

2021
Belle du Jour

as Director

2021
Alchemy

as Director

2019
The Ogre's Garden

as Director

2019
Oz

as Director

2018
Delirium

as Director

2017
Entr’acte III

as Director

2017
Time Travel

as Director

2016
Night Light

as Director

2015
2015
Entr'acte II

as Director

2015
2014
Entr'Acte

as Director

2014
Driving Demons

as Director

2014
Inferno

as Director

2013
After the Circus

as Director

2013
Solar Sight III

as Director

2012
Solar Sight II

as Director

2011
Solar Sight

as Director

2010
Cosmic Alchemy

as Director

2010
Beyond Enchantment

as Director

2009
Circus Savage

as Director

2007
Silent Sonatas

as Director

2005
Poet's Dream

as Director

2004
Enid's Idyll

as Director

2004
Chateau/Poyet

as Director

1996
1993
The Grove

as Director

1993
Star of Day

as Director

1992
The Black Oud

as Director

1991
1988
Tapestry

as Director

1986
Sophie's Place

as Director

1983
Winter Light

as Director

1983
Adagio

as Director

1982
In a Summer Garden

as Director

1981
Masquerade

as Director

1980
Carabosse

as Director

1980
1979
Moonlight Sonata

as Director

1978
Cornell, 1965

as Director

1978
Visions of a City

as Director

1978
Ancestors

as Director

1976
The Apparition

as Director

1973
Once Upon a Time

as Director

1973
Orb

as Director

1972
1970
1969
1967
1966
Rodia-Estudiantina

as Director

1966
1965
Hamfat Asar

as Director

1965
Gymnopédies

as Director

1965
A Legend for Fountains

as Co-Director

1965
The Dream Merchant

as Director

1964
Duo Concertantes

as Director

1964
1964
Johnnie

as Director

1964
Jewel Face

as Director

1962
Pink Swine!

as Director

1961
1960
Portrait of Sharon

as Director

1960
1960
The Soccer Game

as Director

1958
1957
Spectre Mystagogic

as Director

1956
Three

as Director

1956
Trumpit

as Director

1956
Water Light

as Director

1955
Undertow

as Director

1954
Man Is in Pain

as Director

1940
Three by Cornell

as Director

Editor

2021
Belle du Jour

as Editor

2014
Entr'Acte

as Editor

2013
2013
Solar Sight III

as Editor

1993
The Grove

as Editor

1993
Star of Day

as Editor

1992
The Black Oud

as Editor

1978
Cornell, 1965

as Editor

Crew

2013
After the Circus

as Cinematography

1993
The Grove

as Cinematography

1993
Star of Day

as Cinematography

1992
The Black Oud

as Cinematography

1972
The Sacred Art of Tibet

as Cinematography

1970
Hildur and the Magician

as Cinematography

Visual Effects

2022
Harper's Bazar

as Animation

1978
Ancestors

as Animation

1973
Once Upon a Time

as Animation

Producer

Camera

2014
Entr'Acte

as Director of Photography

1978
Cornell, 1965

as Director of Photography