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Larry 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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Born:
Jan 1, 1934 In Denver, Colorado
Movie/TV Credits:
8
First Appeared:
In the movie Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection 1953-01-01
Latest Project:
Movie Encounters in Light 2020-07-31
Known For
Poster of Encounters in Light
Poster of Tapestry
Poster of The Extraordinary Child
Poster of Desistfilm
Filmography
Movie Encounters in Light The Filmmaker 2020-07-31
Movie It Came from Kuchar Self 2009-09-22
Movie Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd Man 2003-04-14
Movie Tapestry Himself 1988-01-01
Movie Cornell, 1965 Himself (voice) 1978-09-28
Movie Desistfilm Unknown 1954-01-01
Movie The Extraordinary Child Unknown 1954-11-12
Movie Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection Unknown 1953-01-01