Lawrence Jordan Movies
- 1970
Hildur and the Magician
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In a woodland, a foolish, bungling magician prepares a potion to aid Hildur, the fairy queen, in rescuing her ward, a princess, who has been abducted...
- 1962
Pink Swine!
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One of Lawrence Jordan's earliest animated films, PINK SWINE is an energetic and playful mix of various animation styles. Described as "an anti-art...
- 2018
Delirium
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There is a hint of an under water circus, and many of the performers are acrobats. The sea water, if that's what it is, is yellowish brown. A...
- 1956
The One Romantic Venture of Edward
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The young man, played by Stan Brakhage, gets himself into a seriously comic mix-up by indulging in semi-sexual fantasies, and allowing the fantasies...
- 1988
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...
- 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...
- 1983
Adagio
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Subtitled “Eros in Psyche” and set to a composition by Tomaso Albinoni, Lawrence Jordan’s rapturous live action short contemplates...
- 1978
Visions of a City
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Sepia toning lends a romantic (even wistful) quality to Larry Jordan's film Visions of a City, which he shot in San Francisco in 1957 and edited in...
- 1965
A Legend for Fountains
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A sombre day in the city. "A Legend for Fountains" is the 16-minute version, "A Fable for Fountains" the 6-minute version.
- 2021
Alchemy
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An eight-minute film by titan of avant-garde animation, Lawrence Jordan.
- 1993
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...
- 1976
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...
- 1981
Masquerade
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For the first time I am animating hand-painted engraved cut-outs on a full-color background. The film is mood-filled: A duel scene in a snowy forest,...
- 2014
Entr'Acte
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A series of vaudeville acts inserted in images of reality, meant to demonstrate the ephemeral nature of all things.
- 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...
- 1991
The Visible Compendium
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The Visible Compendium constructs bits of unnamed meanings, fragments of light. Photography is, to me, not about things, but about light. Light is...
- 1960
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.
- 1978
Ancestors
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Ancestors is a film about spiritual forefathers and mothers in a purely fanciful sense. These are classical figures, anatomical figures, fairy tale...
- 2014
Inferno
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Dante's fantasy of hell, and his yearning after the Epic Poetry form of Virgil, the Latin poet. Again the magnificent illustrations of Gustav Dore,...
- 1955
Undertow
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Fantasy/psycho-drama of the cat, the candle and the Christmas tree.