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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 01, 1934
Deathday: N/A
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Cornell, 1965
1978-09-28
Cornell, 1965
Overview: Lawrence Jordan's portrait of the reclusive artist Joseph Cornell.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-28
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Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection
1953-01-01
Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection
Overview: An anatomy of violence. Four young men and two young women are on a drive. There's a rivalry between two guys for one of the girls. On a remote road, the car stalls. The driver hitchhikes for help. Led by the intrepid girl, the others walk toward abandoned buildings, perhaps a mining operation. One of the three guys sits and reads. The intrepid one explores the building and sees something that scares her. She screams; the two rivals and the second girl run to find her. Something she says starts a fight between her two suitors. The one reading a book walks away in disgust. After stopping the fight, the two young women follow. How can this end? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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The Extraordinary Child
1954-11-12
The Extraordinary Child
Overview: The Extraordinary Child applies his developing style to broad slapstick. His friends from the previous films and the director himself play out a riotous farce about an overgrown baby who steals his father’s cigars. Everyone mugs hilariously. The movie could be taken as another example of the Romantic notion of the artist as a monstrous child or misfit, or a parody of the same rather than the personal confessional statement seen so often in these film movements.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-12
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Desistfilm
1954-01-01
Desistfilm
Overview: Four young men and a young woman sit in boredom. She smokes while one strums a lute, one looks at a magazine, and two fiddle with string. The door opens and in comes a young man, cigarette between his lips, a swagger on his face. The young woman laughs. As the four young men continue disconnected activities, the other two become a couple. When the four realize something has changed, first they stare at the couple who have kissed and now are dancing slowly. The four run from the house in a kind of frenzy and return to stare. The power of sex has unnerved them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Tapestry
1988-01-01
Tapestry
Overview: TAPESTRY, part of Lawrence Jordan's "Odyssey" triptych and filmed much later in Jordan's life, is a charged record of his bachelor life after marriage and child-rearing.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Encounters in Light
2020-07-31
Encounters in Light
Overview: Encounters in Light is the poetic documentation of two artists, friends, and lovers. The film eschews any biographical structure and instead looks at the ways these two artists are bound by time and light. Lawrence Jordan and Joanna McClure have extensive bodies of work between them. The film interweaves Joanna’s poetry, Lawrence’s films, personal interviews, and emotive imagery to produce a sensory engagement with a long lasting friendship and artistic practice. An understanding of mortality is ever present and the film let’s that feeling permeate throughout. How does one relate to years of love, friendship, and art? How does it resonate in the present moment? In the film, there is a sense of boundlessness and understanding that indeed, time dissolves all boundaries until there is only the possibility of light.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-31
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Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
2003-04-14
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
Overview: This wacky prequel to the 1994 blockbuster goes back to the lame-brained Harry and Lloyd's days as classmates at a Rhode Island high school, where the unprincipled principal puts the pair in remedial courses as part of a scheme to fleece the school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-14
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Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding
1955-07-07
Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding
Overview: Wedding gift from Maya Deren to Geoffrey Holder; Stan Brakhage and Larry Jordan made film of wedding at Maya Deren’s invitation, told to be “as free as possible”
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-07
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