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

    4.12003HD

    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
  • 1954
    Desistfilm

    Desistfilm

    Desistfilm

    5.51954HD

    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
  • 1967
    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    61967HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1977
    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    61977HD

    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
  • 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
  • 1993
    Star of Day

    Star of Day

    Star of Day

    41993HD

    The film is simply the internal, subliminal (poetic) thoughts of an aging woman poet as she travels the world, alone, probably for the last time,...

    Star of Day
  • 2019
    Oz

    Oz

    Oz

    02019HD

    A new and original collage film by Lawrence Jordan.

    Oz
  • 2017
    Time Travel

    Time Travel

    Time Travel

    02017HD

    The film, an animation, unfolds in three acts: Act I, "Cyrano", wherein Cyrano makes all manner of boasts and compares his lady-love to the marvels...

    Time Travel
  • 2016
    Night Light

    Night Light

    Night Light

    02016HD

    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
  • 1956
    The One Romantic Venture of Edward

    The One Romantic Venture of Edward

    The One Romantic Venture of Edward

    61956HD

    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
  • 2014
    Entr'Acte

    Entr'Acte

    Entr'Acte

    02014HD

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

    Entr'Acte
  • 1956
    Trumpit

    Trumpit

    Trumpit

    4.41956HD

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

    Trumpit
  • 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
  • 1980
    Carabosse

    Carabosse

    Carabosse

    51980HD

    Animation, also of a new order in the recent series of short works. Mostly on black space, the figures in blue perform a very compact and jewel-like...

    Carabosse
  • 1957
    Spectre Mystagogic

    Spectre Mystagogic

    Spectre Mystagogic

    61957HD

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

    Spectre Mystagogic
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1992
    The Black Oud

    The Black Oud

    The Black Oud

    01992HD

    The Black Oud represents a subtle new direction in documentary. I have used the term 'bio-documentary' to describe this slight, though essential,...

    The Black Oud