Lawrence Jordan Movies

  • 1988
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    Tapestry

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    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.

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  • 2017
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    Entr’acte III

    Entr’acte III

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    An animation which lifts off and proceeds with the delicacy of a soap bubble. Conceived as a tiny interlude between longer films: a chance to catch one's breath after and before more aggressive works, a "time out" period for the mind to float effortlessly and free of gravity.

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  • 1973
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    Orb

    Orb

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    A compact, full-color cut-out animation as ephemeral as the colors swimming on the surface of a soap bubble. The eternal round shape, the orb (sun, moon, symbol of the whole self) balloons its inimitable and joyous course through scene after scene of celestial delight, fixing at last as the...

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  • 1956
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    Trumpit

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    Featuring a card game played on the body of a naked woman, Lawrence Jordan portrays male sexual frustration while slyly satirizing Hollywood reaction shots.

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  • 2013
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    Solar Sight III

    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 sometimes run-on, sometimes separated by brief periods of darkness to relax, as in breathing, the viewing eye. There are no fancy superimpositions now,...

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  • 1961
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    The forty and one nights

    The forty and one nights

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    Painter and collage artist, Jess (Collins) performs 41 (now lost) collages to (his) selected sound bits in the manner of a turn-of-the-century nickelodeon.

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  • 1993
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    The Grove

    The Grove

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    The Grove is the second part of Lawrence Jordan's H.D. Trilogy. It continues what began with THE BLACK OUD (again featuring Joanna McClure as the catalyst) and concludes in STAR OF DAY.

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  • 2016
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    Night Light

    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 subtle variations in tone are recorded. The mood--enhanced by John Davis' original music--is dream-like. It is both lyric and crackling, producing a kind...

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  • 1980
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    Carabosse

    Carabosse

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    Animation, also of a new order in the recent series of short works. Mostly on black space, the figures in blue perform a very compact and jewel-like opera in surreal form, again to Satie’s piano music. Ideally, the film should be projected on a 30" wide white card sitting on a music stand, center...

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  • 1960
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    Hymn in Praise of the Sun

    Hymn in Praise of the Sun

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    A celebration of the filmmaker’s daughter’s birth. The blazing garden as a metaphor for the cycle of life.

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  • 1993
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    Star of Day

    Star of Day

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    The film is simply the internal, subliminal (poetic) thoughts of an aging woman poet as she travels the world, alone, probably for the last time, thinking of a friend she has lost. Finally, she returns home to write ("write or die"). These story elements are all included in the last long poem of...

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  • 1967
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    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

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    First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in style and sensibility but united by their opposition to the Vietnam War. Part of the protest festival Week of the Angry Arts, the epic compilation film...

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  • 2020
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    Encounters in Light

    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 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...

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  • 1960
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    The Season's Change

    The Season's Change

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    A simple contemplation of the plum tree through a window. In rich black and white.

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  • 1976
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    The Apparition

    The Apparition

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    A full production: sync-sound drama with cast, crew, color neg., and 16mm wide screen cut-off (normal projector and lens). My intention was to follow James Agee's idea to present "an imaginary story against a background of reality." The imaginary story is of Paul Rose and his past incarnation as a...

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  • 1956
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    Three

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    In the rarely-seen THREE, one begat three became two and then one again.

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  • 1964
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    Jewel Face

    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.

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  • 2015
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    The Apoplectic Walrus

    The Apoplectic Walrus

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    The filmmaker pays homage to the two men who most influenced his initial film work: Max Ernst (collage) and Luis Buñuel (surrealism in cinema).

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  • 1957
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    Spectre Mystagogic

    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 through space and time."

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  • 2014
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    Driving Demons

    Driving Demons

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    A 'found-footage' film, original too shrunk to print on 16mm, it was made as one of four films for a project called GRAVITY SPELLS, an album of film and new music by John Davis, my collaborator in sound. The title derives from a title in the footage: THESE DRIVING DEMONS START YOUNG, and proceeds...

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