Direction: Larry Jordan

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Larry Jordan. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Water Light (S)

1957 · Documentary · 8 min. · United States

Direction Larry Jordan

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Triptych in Four Parts (S)

1958 · Documentary · 13 min. · United States

Direction Larry Jordan

Cast Wallace Berman · Phillip Lamantia · Michael McClure · John Reed

Plot In describing the basis for TRIPTYCH IN FOUR PARTS, artist Lawrence Jordan writes, "Part one is the Portrait of a North Beach artist, John Reed. Part two and three take...

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Trumpit (S)

1956 · Documentary · 6 min. · United States

Direction Larry Jordan

Cast Stan Brakhage · Yvonne Fair

Plot Lawrence Jordan shot TRUMPIT in the basement of a house on Baker Street in San Francisco that he shared with Stan Brakhage in the mid-1950s. Brakhage himself stars in the...

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

1977 · Movie · 42 min. · United States

Direction Larry Jordan

Plot Using the cut-out style of animation I tried to marry the classic engravings of Gustave Dore to the classic poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge through a classic narrator: Orson Welles....

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Winter Light (S)

1983 · Documentary · 9 min. · United States

Direction Larry Jordan

Plot WINTER LIGHT, filmed in the dawn hours of California winter, explores the endless permutations of light and illumination as representatives of the Demeter-Persephone myth of withdrawal of life through the...

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Enid's Idyll (S)

2004 · Movie · 17 min. · United States

Direction Larry Jordan

Plot Animation. Jordan has used 46 engraved Dore illustrations to IDYLLS OF THE KING as settings for his extravigantly romantic saga. As Enid, the protagonist, is seen in a vast array...

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Beyond Enchantment (S)

2010 · Movie · 9 min. · United States

Direction Larry Jordan

Plot Where all is static motion; where music and light become one; where change and motion become one; and where the end is the beginning. Black and white cut #out animation...

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The Apoplectic Walrus (S)

2015 · Movie · 16 min. · United States

Direction Larry Jordan

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Orb (S)

1973 · Movie · 5 min. · United States

Direction Larry Jordan

Plot 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...

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