Lawrence Jordan

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1934-01-01 (91 years old)

Place of Birth

Denver, Colorado, USA

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 ...

Production

1956

Three

as Director

1969

2019

1964

Duo Concertantes

as Director

1967

1965

Hamfat Asar

as Director

1965

Gymnopédies

as Director

1979

Moonlight Sonata

as Director

1986

Sophie's Place

as Director

1980

Carabosse

as Director

1957

1981

Masquerade

as Director

1973

Orb

as Director

2004

Enid's Idyll

as Director

1973

Once Upon a Time

as Director

2021

Belle du Jour

as Editor

2021

Belle du Jour

as Director

2010

Cosmic Alchemy

as Director

1956

Trumpit

as Director

1954

Man Is in Pain

as Director

1966

1960

1963

Pink Swine!

as Director

1958

1966

2021

Alchemy

as Director

1978

1992

The Black Oud

as Director

1983

Winter Light

as Director

1982

1993

The Grove

as Director

1978

Cornell, 1965

as Director of Photography

1956

Water Light

as Director

1972

The Sacred Art of Tibet

as Cinematography

1993

Star of Day

as Director

1991

1978

Cornell, 1965

as Editor

1983

Adagio

as Director

1988

Tapestry

as Director

1978

Cornell, 1965

as Director

1965

2015

2010

2011

Solar Sight

as Director

2004

Chateau/Poyet

as Director

2005

Poet's Dream

as Director

2014

Entr'Acte

as Director

2012

Solar Sight II

as Director

2009

Circus Savage

as Director

2013

After the Circus

as Director

2014

Inferno

as Director

2013

2013

2014

Driving Demons

as Director

2013

After the Circus

as Cinematography

2013

2013

Solar Sight III

as Director

2014

Entr'Acte

as Director of Photography

2014

Entr'Acte

as Editor

1964

Johnnie

as Director

1980

1960

2016

Night Light

as Director

1964

Jewel Face

as Director

2007

Silent Sonatas

as Director

1955

Undertow

as Director

1976

The Apparition

as Director

1978

Ancestors

as Director

1960

The Soccer Game

as Director

2015

Entr'acte II

as Director

2017

Time Travel

as Director

1965

2017

Entr’acte III

as Director

1992

The Black Oud

as Editor

1992

The Black Oud

as Cinematography

1993

Star of Day

as Editor

1993

The Grove

as Cinematography

1993

Star of Day

as Cinematography

1993

The Grove

as Editor

1970

Hildur and the Magician

as Cinematography

2024

Reve d'Or

as Director

2018

Delirium

as Director

1978

Ancestors

as Animation

2015

2022

Harper's Bazar

as Animation

2022

Harper's Bazar

as Director

2019

Oz

as Director

1972

Three by Cornell

as Director

1973

Once Upon a Time

as Animation

2024

Hommage

as Director

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