2010
2010
2010
Directed by: Lawrence Jordan
year: 2010 23 minutes
On ancient star maps of magnificent color quality, experimental animator Lawrence Jordan takes the viewer out of this world into a world of cosmic imagination. COSMIC ALCHEMY is thematically and visually consistent with Jordan's earlier shorts and yet, set to an evocative score by John Davis, the filmmaker has crossed into an unfamiliar and richly rewarding territory of metaphoric complexity. For the handful of folks unfamiliar with Jordan's work, COSMIC ALCHEMY will leave you desperately wanting more. For the rest, already quite familiar with his brilliance, this film will install a fresh appreciation for Jordan's justifiable position among experimental cinema's ascended masters.
- Genres:
- Avant-garde
- Short / Non-Narrative
- Animation / Cut-Out
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Beyond Enchantment
Dir. Lawrence Jordan
(2010)
9 minutes
- Genres:
- Avant-garde
- Animation / Cut-Out
- Short / Non-Narrative
- Music / Tone Poem
Where all is static motion; where music and light become one; where change and motion become one; and where the end is the beginning.
Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass
Dir. Lawrence Jordan
(2006)
17 minutes
- Genres:
- Animation / Cut-Out
- Avant-garde
- Short / Non-Narrative
Ever dance the mambo with silent film stars and Lawrence Jordan animation? That's what you get with BLUE SKIES BEYOND THE LOOKING GLASS. It's raucus. It's lush. It's delirium.
Solar Sight
Dir. Lawrence Jordan
(2011)
15 minutes
- Genres:
- Avant-garde
- Short / Non-Narrative
- Animation / Cut-Out
What's the place of the human being in the cosmos? More and more we think about what is "beyond." Less and less is art concerned.
Duo Concertantes
Dir. Lawrence Jordan
(1964)
9 minutes
- Genres:
- Animation / Cut-Out
- Short / Non-Narrative
- Avant-garde / Surrealist
- Music / Tone Poem
Time and a change of culture have given a surrealistic and nostalgic aura to Victorian steel engravings, as Max Ernst and several collagists between him and Lawrence Jordan have known for many decades.
Carabosse
Dir. Lawrence Jordan
(1980)
4 minutes
- Genres:
- Animation / Cut-Out
- Short / Non-Narrative
- Music / Tone Poem
- Avant-garde / Surrealist
Mostly on black space, the figures in blue perform a very compact and jewel-like opera in surreal form to Erik Satie's piano music.
The Sacred Art of Tibet
Dir. Lawrence Jordan
(1972)
28 minutes
- Genres:
- Animation / Cut-Out
- Avant-garde
- Documentary / Religion
- Short / Documentary
- Documentary / Art / Visual Arts / Painting
- Classic / Classic Documentary
The making of THE SACRED ART OF TIBET was a long and arduous process. And, it made a deep impression in my life. The film culminated a long period of research into Northern Buddhist philosophy.
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