Lawrence Jordan Movies

  • 2003
    Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

    Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

    Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

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    This wacky prequel to the 1994 blockbuster goes back to the lame-brained Harry and Lloyd's days as classmates at a Rhode Island high school, where...

    Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
  • 1977
    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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    Orson Welles reads the poem especially for this film by Larry Jordan, which is dedicated to the late Wallace Berman, and is made possible by a grant...

    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • 1969
    Our Lady of the Sphere

    Our Lady of the Sphere

    Our Lady of the Sphere

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    Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on...

    Our Lady of the Sphere
  • 1965
    Gymnopédies

    Gymnopédies

    Gymnopédies

    5.81965HD

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

    Gymnopédies
  • 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
  • 1961
    The forty and one nights

    The forty and one nights

    The forty and one nights

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    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
  • 1966
    Big Sur: The Ladies

    Big Sur: The Ladies

    Big Sur: The Ladies

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    Against the coastline of the Big Sur country the camera catches swiftly shifting fragments of the nude women at the baths, playing the guitar,...

    Big Sur: The Ladies
  • 1954
    The Extraordinary Child

    The Extraordinary Child

    The Extraordinary Child

    5.41954HD

    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
  • 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
  • 2014
    Driving Demons

    Driving Demons

    Driving Demons

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    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
  • 2012
    Solar Sight II

    Solar Sight II

    Solar Sight II

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    In explaining the process of SOLAR SIGHT II, artist Lawrence Jordan writes, "Many of the approaches to the cut-out material are the same as in part...

    Solar Sight II
  • 2021
    Belle du Jour

    Belle du Jour

    Belle du Jour

    02021HD

    Film by Lawrence Jordan, soundtrack by John Davis. Children's book illustrations intermingle with the alchemical and all kinds of animalia in...

    Belle du Jour
  • 1973
    Once Upon a Time

    Once Upon a Time

    Once Upon a Time

    6.51973HD

    We are first presented a cobweb castle, filled with the haunting doubts of the young protagonist. Spirits appear on the screen and are heard on the...

    Once Upon a Time
  • 2011
    Solar Sight

    Solar Sight

    Solar Sight

    8.82011HD

    In describing the foundations for SOLAR SIGHT, artist Lawrence Jordan writes, "A question I had in mind was: what's the place of the human being in...

    Solar Sight
  • 1964
    Duo Concertantes

    Duo Concertantes

    Duo Concertantes

    5.11964HD

    Jordan’s imagery is exquisite and eloquent, concentrating on simple, repeated use of particularly poetic symbols and figures, a conglomerative...

    Duo Concertantes
  • 1954
    Man Is in Pain

    Man Is in Pain

    Man Is in Pain

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    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.

    Man Is in Pain
  • 2014
    Entr'Acte

    Entr'Acte

    Entr'Acte

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    A series of vaudeville acts inserted in images of reality, meant to demonstrate the ephemeral nature of all things.

    Entr'Acte
  • 1960
    Hymn in Praise of the Sun

    Hymn in Praise of the Sun

    Hymn in Praise of the Sun

    01960HD

    A celebration of the filmmaker’s daughter’s birth. The blazing garden as a metaphor for the cycle of life.

    Hymn in Praise of the Sun
  • 1953
    Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection

    Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection

    Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection

    6.51953HD

    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
  • 2019
    Oz

    Oz

    Oz

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    A new and original collage film by Lawrence Jordan.

    Oz