Lawrence Jordan Movies

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

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,...

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

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

"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....

A sonic collage of intermittent speech and Eastern drones intermingles with vibrant color imagery of suspended statute heads, flowers and trinkets....

A repository of fashion, pleasure and instruction, HARPER'S BAZAR first appeared in 1867 as a weekly publication showcasing European fashion for...

The filmmaker pays homage to the two men who most influenced his initial film work: Max Ernst (collage) and Luis Buñuel (surrealism in cinema).

An animation which lifts off and proceeds with the delicacy of a soap bubble. Conceived as a tiny interlude between longer films: a chance to catch...

In a woodland, a foolish, bungling magician prepares a potion to aid Hildur, the fairy queen, in rescuing her ward, a princess, who has been abducted...

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

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...

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

(Now) famous sculptor artist George Herms displays drawings on butcher paper as the filmmaker’s daughter plays with colors of light.

Dante's fantasy of hell, and his yearning after the Epic Poetry form of Virgil, the Latin poet. Again the magnificent illustrations of Gustav Dore,...

An exploration into 19th century death mystiques, which rely heavily on the supernatural, along with a belief in, or at least a fascination with,...

The poet's dreams a maiden's bubbles through edifices of forest and eclectic contagion.

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...

The filmmaker pays homage to the two men who most influenced his initial film work: Max Ernst (collage) and Luis Buñuel (surrealism in cinema).

Avant-garde short by Lawrence Jordan.