Lawrence Jordan Movies

  • 2016
    Night Light

    Night Light

    Night Light

    02016HD

    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...

    Night Light
  • 1973
    Orb

    Orb

    Orb

    01973HD

    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,...

    Orb
  • 1966
    Big Sur: The Ladies

    Big Sur: The Ladies

    Big Sur: The Ladies

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    Against the coastline of the Big Sur country the camera catches swiftly shifting fragments of the nude women at the baths, playing the guitar,...

    Big Sur: The Ladies
  • 1967
    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    61967HD

    First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

    For Life, Against the War
  • 1973
    Once Upon a Time

    Once Upon a Time

    Once Upon a Time

    6.51973HD

    We are first presented a cobweb castle, filled with the haunting doubts of the young protagonist. Spirits appear on the screen and are heard on the...

    Once Upon a Time
  • 1986
    Sophie's Place

    Sophie's Place

    Sophie's Place

    4.41986HD

    Five years in the making, Lawrence Jordan's feature-length "alchemical autobiography" Sophie's Place takes as its inspiration the story of the Greek...

    Sophie's Place
  • 1972
    The Sacred Art of Tibet

    The Sacred Art of Tibet

    The Sacred Art of Tibet

    01972HD

    An accurate depiction of the basic tenets of northern Mahayana Buddhism, cast into living or "experiential" form, consistent with powerful mantras...

    The Sacred Art of Tibet
  • 2017
    Time Travel

    Time Travel

    Time Travel

    02017HD

    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...

    Time Travel
  • 1982
    In a Summer Garden

    In a Summer Garden

    In a Summer Garden

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    Part of a trio of films that also includes ADAGIO and WINTER LIGHT, IN A SUMMER GARDEN "draws much of its power from the way it is constructed and...

    In a Summer Garden
  • 1965
    Gymnopédies

    Gymnopédies

    Gymnopédies

    5.81965HD

    Animation. The theme is Weightlessness. Objects and characters are cut loose from habitual meanings, also from tensions and gravitational...

    Gymnopédies
  • 1980
    Carabosse

    Carabosse

    Carabosse

    51980HD

    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...

    Carabosse
  • 1978
    Visions of a City

    Visions of a City

    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...

    Visions of a City
  • 1996
    Postcard from San Miguel

    Postcard from San Miguel

    Postcard from San Miguel

    01996HD

    POSTCARD FROM SAN MIGUEL is perhaps the most mystical of all the films from Lawrence Jordan's "Odyssey" triptych. On the surface, it is merely a...

    Postcard from San Miguel
  • 1956
    Water Light

    Water Light

    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...

    Water Light
  • 2019
    The Ogre's Garden

    The Ogre's Garden

    The Ogre's Garden

    02019HD

    This short piece is somewhat romantic, despite its title. We do see the ogre however. He inverts himself into the action throughout the film. As...

    The Ogre's Garden
  • 2019
    Oz

    Oz

    Oz

    02019HD

    A new and original collage film by Lawrence Jordan.

    Oz
  • 2005
    Poet's Dream

    Poet's Dream

    Poet's Dream

    02005HD

    The poet's dreams a maiden's bubbles through edifices of forest and eclectic contagion.

    Poet's Dream
  • 2021
    Alchemy

    Alchemy

    Alchemy

    02021HD

    An eight-minute film by titan of avant-garde animation, Lawrence Jordan.

    Alchemy
  • 2008
    Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass

    Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass

    Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass

    02008HD

    Combines the Mambo and Tibetan sound effects with Jordan Animation and clips of silent film stars, including Eric Von Stroheim, Greta Garbo, Gray...

    Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass
  • 1976
    The Apparition

    The Apparition

    The Apparition

    01976HD

    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...

    The Apparition