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Lawrence Jordan (born 1934) is an American independent filmmaker who is most widely known for his animated collage films. He was a founding member of the Canyon Cinema Cooperative and the Camera Obscura Film Society.
Lawrence Jordan, Sophie’s Place, 1986, still from a color film in 16 mm, 86 minutes. THE MASK OF THE MYSTIC or magus, a guise once prevalent in the American avant-garde cinema, is now worn by only three remaining filmmakers, all of whom happen to live and work in California: Jordan Belson (b. 1926), Kenneth Anger (b. 1927), and Lawrence ...
artist and film maker in the San Francisco Bay Area. 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.
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 fifty experimental films, including a number of fanciful, filmic animations made from collaged cut outs of Victorian engravings.
Mar 23, 2020 · The cut-out technique of Jordan’s animations appropriated from obsessively-collected ephemera creates tensions between still and moving imagery, indexicality and animation, as well as surreal, mnemonic and archival modes of cinematic expression.
\”Lawrence Jordan (aka Larry Jordan) is an independent filmmaker who has been making exquisite films since 1952. Jordan worked with the celebrated American surrealist Joseph Cornell to help complete several of his films during the 1950s, before going on to develop his own extraordinary body of work.
Lawrence Jordan has been at the forefront of experimental cinema, particularly through his innovative use of animation, for nearly six decades.
