Screenplay: 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 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

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 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

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

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...