Lawrence Jordan Movies

  • 1967
    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

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    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
  • 1956
    Trumpit

    Trumpit

    Trumpit

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    Featuring a card game played on the body of a naked woman, Lawrence Jordan portrays male sexual frustration while slyly satirizing Hollywood reaction...

    Trumpit
  • 1955
    Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding

    Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding

    Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding

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    Wedding gift from Maya Deren to Geoffrey Holder; Stan Brakhage and Larry Jordan made film of wedding at Maya Deren’s invitation, told to be...

    Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding
  • 1956
    The One Romantic Venture of Edward

    The One Romantic Venture of Edward

    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...

    The One Romantic Venture of Edward
  • 1954
    The Extraordinary Child

    The Extraordinary Child

    The Extraordinary Child

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    The Extraordinary Child applies his developing style to broad slapstick. His friends from the previous films and the director himself play out a...

    The Extraordinary Child
  • 1953
    Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection

    Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection

    Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection

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    An anatomy of violence. Four young men and two young women are on a drive. There's a rivalry between two guys for one of the girls. On a remote road,...

    Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection
  • 1965
    Gymnopédies

    Gymnopédies

    Gymnopédies

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

    Gymnopédies
  • 1958
    Triptych in Four Parts

    Triptych in Four Parts

    Triptych in Four Parts

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    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...

    Triptych in Four Parts
  • 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
  • 1973
    Orb

    Orb

    Orb

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    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
  • 1955
    Undertow

    Undertow

    Undertow

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    Fantasy/psycho-drama of the cat, the candle and the Christmas tree.

    Undertow
  • 1957
    Spectre Mystagogic

    Spectre Mystagogic

    Spectre Mystagogic

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    "Human qualities migrate through light and shadow... Like flames and waves, the dead and the living course through this world... without weight...

    Spectre Mystagogic
  • 2025
    Films For Freedom

    Films For Freedom

    Films For Freedom

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    The Film-Makers’ Cooperative and Canyon Cinema joined forces in 2025 to support Fall of Freedom – an urgent nationwide arts movement...

    Films For Freedom
  • 2009
    Circus Savage

    Circus Savage

    Circus Savage

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    If there is such an old-fashioned thing as "stream of consciousness" in cinema, I suppose this is it. It certainly felt like a flowing stream or...

    Circus Savage
  • 2016
    Night Light

    Night Light

    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...

    Night Light
  • 1965
    Hamfat Asar

    Hamfat Asar

    Hamfat Asar

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    "The strangeness of this film is laced with carefully moulded apocalypses as the filmmaker explores a vision of life beyond death – the Elysian...

    Hamfat Asar
  • 2015
    Entr'acte II

    Entr'acte II

    Entr'acte II

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    In Entr'acte II the walls come tumbling down. The wheels come off the wagon: Thunder, Lightning, Explosive meditations. Everything seems to be...

    Entr'acte II
  • 1954
    Desistfilm

    Desistfilm

    Desistfilm

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    Four young men and a young woman sit in boredom. She smokes while one strums a lute, one looks at a magazine, and two fiddle with string. The door...

    Desistfilm
  • 1993
    The Grove

    The Grove

    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...

    The Grove
  • 2019
    Oz

    Oz

    Oz

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    A new and original collage film by Lawrence Jordan.

    Oz