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THE LAWRENCE JORDAN ALBUM
By Michael Barrett
Animator Lawrence Jordan at work on a 1970’s project.
"I make films in the Surrealist manner, forcing inspiration as often as possible. When I am not inspired, I do not make films. I have always wanted to show the ‘impossible’ in my films, and to astonish the viewer, rather than entertain or tell the truth... I often operate on freely associated series of images, finding the trail as I go, not plotting, though some of the films are me- ticulously scripted. When I astonish myself, I put it in the film. When I don’t, I leave it out.” The above is from the liner notes included in THE LAWRENCE JORDAN ALBUM, one of the more surprising and important DVD boxes of
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the year. Like Criterion’s Stan Brakhage collec- tion or Facets’ James Broughton box, this set finally makes available to the common viewer— anyone with the Internet, a rental-by-mail sub- scription, a library card—the type of work previously unavailable to anyone not living in a
THE LAWRENCE JORDAN ALBUM 1957-2007, Facets Video,
DD-2.0, $59.95, approx. 465m, DVD-0
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