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Lawrence Jordan
Denver, Colorado, USA
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 sc…
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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.
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2024
Reve d'Or
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2024
Hommage
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2022
Harper's Bazar
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2021
Alchemy
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2021
Belle du Jour
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2020
Encounters in Light
Movie The Filmmaker
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2019
Oz
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2019
The Ogre's Garden
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2018
Delirium
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2017
Time Travel
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2017
Entr’acte III
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2016
Night Light
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2015
The Apoplectic Walrus
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2015
The Apoplectic Walrus
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2015
Entr'acte II
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2014
Entr'Acte
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2014
Driving Demons
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2014
Inferno
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2013
Solar Sight III
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2013
After the Circus
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2012
Solar Sight II
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2011
Solar Sight
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2010
Beyond Enchantment
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2010
Cosmic Alchemy
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2009
Circus Savage
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2008
The Miracle of Don Cristobal
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2008
Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass
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2007
Silent Sonatas
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2005
Poet's Dream
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2004
Enid's Idyll
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2004
Chateau/Poyet
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1996
Postcard from San Miguel
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1993
The Grove
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1993
Star of Day
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1992
The Black Oud
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1991
The Visible Compendium
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1988
Tapestry
Movie Himself
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1986
Sophie's Place
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1983
Winter Light
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1983
Adagio
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