Lawrence Jordan

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.
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    Directing
    Place of birth
    Denver, Colorado, USA
    Birthday
    1/1/1934
Cornell, 1965
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Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection
Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection
6.5
The Extraordinary Child
The Extraordinary Child
5.4
Desistfilm
Desistfilm
5.5
Tapestry
Tapestry
2
Encounters in Light
Encounters in Light
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Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
4.2
Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding
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