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Lawrence Jordan‌

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calendar1934-01-01

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Lawrence Jordan

Denver, Colorado, USA

Lawrence Jordan

Denver, Colorado, USA

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1934-01-01

Popularity

star0.6

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.

Movie Credits

Cornell, 1965

Cornell, 1965‌
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calendar 1978

Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection

Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection‌
star6.5
calendar 1953

The Extraordinary Child

The Extraordinary Child‌
star5.4
calendar 1954

Desistfilm

Desistfilm‌
star5.5
calendar 1954

Tapestry

Tapestry‌
star2.0
calendar 1988

Encounters in Light

Encounters in Light‌
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calendar 2020

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd‌
star4.2
calendar 2003

Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding

Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding‌
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calendar 1955

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