![Lawrence Jordan](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/nELFCK1hpF0pmhRSQy9EdWrVG6R.jpg)
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.
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 3.417 |
Birthday | 1934-01-01 |
Place of Birth | Denver, Colorado, USA |
Also Known As | Lawrence C. Jordan, Larry Jordan, |
![Cornell, 1965](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
1978
![Cornell, 1965](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
Cornell, 1965
0/0
Lawrence Jordan's portrait of the reclusive artist Joseph Cornell.
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Cornell, 1965
![The Extraordinary Child](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/cPRyxiQxFESoCVpluOD7T6JG6s2.jpg)
1954
![The Extraordinary Child](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/cPRyxiQxFESoCVpluOD7T6JG6s2.jpg)
The Extraordinary Child
5.4/8
The Extraordinary Child applies his developing style to broad slapstick. His friends from the previous films and the director himself play out a rioto...
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The Extraordinary Child
![Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/lQ5yEutFDloouRQZAtAUg14uQIs.jpg)
1953
![Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/lQ5yEutFDloouRQZAtAUg14uQIs.jpg)
Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection
6.5/8
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,...
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Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection
![Desistfilm](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/k5SAkAdvDIQzUlJUs1C2KokdhyY.jpg)
1954
![Desistfilm](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/k5SAkAdvDIQzUlJUs1C2KokdhyY.jpg)
Desistfilm
5.474/38
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 ope...
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Desistfilm
![Tapestry](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/5LefPzglYSf2cURfpGZpLI47n4P.jpg)
1988
![Tapestry](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/5LefPzglYSf2cURfpGZpLI47n4P.jpg)
Tapestry
2/1
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...
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Tapestry
![Encounters in Light](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/t8lYi4ORM7Oxsazocxs9WWtLaEY.jpg)
2020
![Encounters in Light](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/t8lYi4ORM7Oxsazocxs9WWtLaEY.jpg)
Encounters in Light
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Encounters in Light is the poetic documentation of two artists, friends, and lovers. The film eschews any biographical structure and instead looks at...
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Encounters in Light
![Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/qxD6P3UXASFCdbrVavceZzgOfI9.jpg)
2003
![Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/qxD6P3UXASFCdbrVavceZzgOfI9.jpg)
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
4.16/816
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...
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Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
![Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
1955
![Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding
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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 a...
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