Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
8
Gender
Male
Birthday
January 01, 1934 ( 90 years old )
Place of Birth
Denver, Colorado, USA
Also Known As
Lawrence C. Jordan
Larry 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.
Known For
Cornell, 1965
1978-09-28The Extraordinary Child
1954-11-12Desistfilm
1954-01-01Tapestry
1988-01-01Encounters in Light
2020-07-31Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
2003-04-14