Lawrence Jordan Movies
- 2016
Night Light
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This is a classing Jordan animation, primarily in B/W, with touches of color. Actually, the engraved art work was film on color negative, so that...
- 1972
The Sacred Art of Tibet
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An accurate depiction of the basic tenets of northern Mahayana Buddhism, cast into living or "experiential" form, consistent with powerful mantras...
- 2019
Oz
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A new and original collage film by Lawrence Jordan.
- 1964
Jewel Face
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(Now) famous sculptor artist George Herms displays drawings on butcher paper as the filmmaker’s daughter plays with colors of light.
- 1958
Triptych in Four Parts
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In describing the basis for TRIPTYCH IN FOUR PARTS, artist Lawrence Jordan writes, "Part one is the Portrait of a North Beach artist, John Reed. Part...
- 2013
Solar Sight III
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I have continued the dream-like form of disparate animated scenes, each with its own "romantic-with-an-edge" slightly surreal flavour. Scenes are...
- 1956
Water Light
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The wanderings (and Lawrence Jordan's "Odyssey" triptych) begin in the late 1950s when the filmmaker joined the U.S. Merchant Marines and sailed...
- 2017
Time Travel
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The film, an animation, unfolds in three acts: Act I, "Cyrano", wherein Cyrano makes all manner of boasts and compares his lady-love to the marvels...
- 2005
Poet's Dream
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The poet's dreams a maiden's bubbles through edifices of forest and eclectic contagion.
- 1992
The Black Oud
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The Black Oud represents a subtle new direction in documentary. I have used the term 'bio-documentary' to describe this slight, though essential,...
- 2022
Harper's Bazar
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A repository of fashion, pleasure and instruction, HARPER'S BAZAR first appeared in 1867 as a weekly publication showcasing European fashion for...
- 1964
Johnnie
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A little boy swings, breaks sticks, looks up into the sky, himself a cherub, while on the soundtrack Chad and Jeremy sing "and if a hundred boys...
- 2013
After the Circus
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An exploration into 19th century death mystiques, which rely heavily on the supernatural, along with a belief in, or at least a fascination with,...
- 1964
Ein Traum der Liebenden
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In EIN TRAUM DER LIEBENDEN [A DREAM OF LOVERS], Monk meanders through a maze of Minoan bull-leaping, satyrs and revelatory rainbows.
- 1957
Spectre Mystagogic
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"Human qualities migrate through light and shadow... Like flames and waves, the dead and the living course through this world... without weight...
- 1983
Winter Light
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Though best known for his collage films, Lawrence Jordan here makes exquisite study of the different aspects of light lilting through the early...
- 1960
The Soccer Game
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A game of 9-pins played among the stars.
- 1960
Portrait of Sharon
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A kinetic collage of superimposed warm, soft-colored 16mm film set to percussive jazz, Lawrence Jordan's PORTRAIT OF SHARON features beat poet Kirby...
- 1966
Rodia-Estudiantina
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Avant-garde short by Lawrence Jordan.
- 2020
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...