Direction: Larry Jordan

Direction Larry Jordan

Plot As with “Rodia- Estudiantina” only one shot, which probably was the result of lapse in concentration, was deleted from the original camera roll. This film was intended to extend my...

Direction Larry Jordan

Plot Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on static backgrounds to suggest travel and discovery. There are perils: a boy falls, a lion roars. The lyric flights of...

Direction Larry Jordan

Plot 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...

Direction Larry Jordan

Plot "After GYMNOPEDIES, I had long wanted to animate a film specifically for a pre-selected piano piece by [Erik] Satie. MOONLIGHT SONATA is that film. It was totally designed for the...

Direction Maurice Amor · Karl Bissenger · Tom Bissenger · Abbe Borov

Plot A political activism compilation film made by splicing together a series of clips centered around the Vietnam War by a number of different filmmakers.

Direction Larry Jordan

Plot The theme is Weightlessness. Objects and characters are cut loose from habitual meanings, also from tensions and gravitational limitations. A lyric Eric Satie track accompanies the film. Such a portrait...

Direction Larry Jordan

Plot A woman reads Philip Lamantia's poem (from which the film gets its title), which evokes masculine angst as the hand acts out the scenario of the poem.

Direction Larry Jordan

Plot IN A SUMMER GARDEN explores the mystery-roots of my own passion for the world of bright blossoms, the mystical rose, the ancient gardens of Beardsley and King Arthur. In this...

Direction Larry Jordan

Plot The mystery and the beauty of Mexico's high desert colonial town, its churches, its abandoned silver mine, its statues and colored streets. Lines from Garcia Lorca.

Direction Larry Jordan

Cast Joseph Cornell

Plot In 1965 I worked as Joseph Cornell's assistant on boxes and films. I filmed his work extensively, and as much as I could of him. (It is the only film...

Direction Larry Jordan

Cast Kirby Doyle · Sharon Morrill

Plot A kinetic collage of superimposed warm, soft-colored 16mm film set to percussive jazz, Larry Jordan’s PORTRAIT OF SHARON features beat poet Kirby Doyle on a motorcycle and Sharon “Didi” Morill,...

Direction Larry Jordan

Plot "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, obviously the morning after a...

Direction Larry Jordan

Plot A question I had in mind was: what's the place of the human being in the cosmos? More and more we think about what is 'beyond.' Less and less is...

Direction Larry Jordan

Plot DUO CONCERTANTES has two parts, "The Centennial Exposition" and "Patricia Gives Birth To A Dream By The Doorway". Both Patricia and Hamfat Asar (made the following year), the two most...

Direction Larry Jordan

Plot The Visible Compendium constructs bits of unnamed meanings, fragments of light. Photography is, to me, not about things, but about light. Light is our primary reality when we are at...

Direction Larry Jordan

Plot Animation. In many ways a more searching, and certainly a more complex film than OUR LADY OF THE SPHERE. We are first presented a cobweb castle, filled with the haunting...

Direction Larry Jordan

Plot The strangeness of this film is laced with carefully molded apocalypses as the filmmaker explores a vision of life beyond death – the Elysian fields of Homer, Dante’s Purgatorio, de...

Direction Larry Jordan

Cast Michael McClure

Plot 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 1978. The pace...

Direction Larry Jordan

Plot Five years in the making, Lawrence Jordan's feature-length "alchemical autobiography" SOPHIE'S PLACE takes as its inspiration the story of the Greek goddess of wisdom, Sophia. Writes Jordan, "I must emphasize...

Direction Larry Jordan

Cast Erich von Stroheim · Greta Garbo · Gary Cooper · Buster Keaton

Plot Ever dance the mambo with silent film stars and Jordan animation? That’s what you get with “Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass”. It’s raucus. It’s lush. It’s delirium.