Lawrence Jordan Movies

  • 1965
    A Legend for Fountains

    A Legend for Fountains

    A Legend for Fountains

    61965HD

    A sombre day in the city. "A Legend for Fountains" is the 16-minute version, "A Fable for Fountains" the 6-minute version.

    A Legend for Fountains
  • 1962
    Pink Swine!

    Pink Swine!

    Pink Swine!

    11962HD

    One of Lawrence Jordan's earliest animated films, PINK SWINE is an energetic and playful mix of various animation styles. Described as "an anti-art...

    Pink Swine!
  • 1964
    Ein Traum der Liebenden

    Ein Traum der Liebenden

    Ein Traum der Liebenden

    01964HD

    In EIN TRAUM DER LIEBENDEN [A DREAM OF LOVERS], Monk meanders through a maze of Minoan bull-leaping, satyrs and revelatory rainbows.

    Ein Traum der Liebenden
  • 1966
    Rodia-Estudiantina

    Rodia-Estudiantina

    Rodia-Estudiantina

    01966HD

    Avant-garde short by Lawrence Jordan.

    Rodia-Estudiantina
  • 1956
    Three

    Three

    Three

    101956HD

    In the rarely-seen THREE, one begat three became two and then one again.

    Three
  • 1960
    The Season's Change

    The Season's Change

    The Season's Change

    01960HD

    A simple contemplation of the plum tree through a window. In rich black and white.

    The Season's Change
  • 2024
    Reve d'Or

    Reve d'Or

    Reve d'Or

    02024HD

    We are presented on the screen with a sequence of Arcadian images, the intent of which is to raise consciousness one full octave, and to give the...

    Reve d'Or
  • 2014
    Driving Demons

    Driving Demons

    Driving Demons

    02014HD

    A 'found-footage' film, original too shrunk to print on 16mm, it was made as one of four films for a project called GRAVITY SPELLS, an album of film...

    Driving Demons
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2013
    Solar Sight III

    Solar Sight III

    Solar Sight III

    02013HD

    I have continued the dream-like form of disparate animated scenes, each with its own "romantic-with-an-edge" slightly surreal flavour. Scenes are...

    Solar Sight III
  • 1961
    The forty and one nights

    The forty and one nights

    The forty and one nights

    01961HD

    Painter and collage artist, Jess (Collins) performs 41 (now lost) collages to (his) selected sound bits in the manner of a turn-of-the-century...

    The forty and one nights
  • 1955
    Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding

    Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding

    Untitled Film of Geoffrey Holder's Wedding

    01955HD

    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
  • 1964
    Johnnie

    Johnnie

    Johnnie

    01964HD

    A little boy swings, breaks sticks, looks up into the sky, himself a cherub, while on the soundtrack Chad and Jeremy sing "and if a hundred boys...

    Johnnie
  • 2010
    Cosmic Alchemy

    Cosmic Alchemy

    Cosmic Alchemy

    5.72010HD

    On ancient star maps of magnificent color quality, experimental animator Lawrence Jordan takes the viewer out of this world into a world of cosmic...

    Cosmic Alchemy
  • 2008
    The Miracle of Don Cristobal

    The Miracle of Don Cristobal

    The Miracle of Don Cristobal

    02008HD

    For a long time, i have wanted to construct a melodrama (animated) from the funky engraving of the 19th century which illustrated "young peoples"...

    The Miracle of Don Cristobal
  • 2009
    Circus Savage

    Circus Savage

    Circus Savage

    8.82009HD

    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
  • 2007
    Silent Sonatas

    Silent Sonatas

    Silent Sonatas

    02007HD

    Two distinct idylls: one of summer, one of winter. Accompanied by appropriate music (the sonatas are not silent), each one moves through a period of...

    Silent Sonatas
  • 1978
    Cornell, 1965

    Cornell, 1965

    Cornell, 1965

    01978HD

    Lawrence Jordan's portrait of the reclusive artist Joseph Cornell.

    Cornell, 1965
  • 1957
    Spectre Mystagogic

    Spectre Mystagogic

    Spectre Mystagogic

    01957HD

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

    Spectre Mystagogic