Our lady of the sphere

Duration: 9

Year Published: 1969

Creator: Larry Jordan.

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Credits: Jordan, Larry, 1934- direction.

Description: No date on film; date supplied from: Visionary film / P. Adams Sitney.; Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access by appt. only. CBPF.; PFA 1604-01-2651. Restricted: For PFA exhibition only.; PFA 1604-01-8304. Restricted: For PFA exhibition only.; Russett, Robert and Cecile Starr. Experimental animation: origins of a new art. Rev. ed. New York: Da Capo, 1988, p. 157; Sitney, P. Adams. Visionary film. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979, p. 325-326, 328; Collage animation of Victorian engravings. The foreground constantly changes against more slowly changing backgrounds. The film begins with a hand dropping an egg, with the Victorian landscape changing to a moonscape. Figures float across the backgrounds, some tinted either red, blue, or green. The quick succession of cut-out images creates a Surrealist effect. However, the reverie (which has a "Baroque" music track) is occasionally broken by an obnoxious buzzing sound.; In his collage animations, such as this one, Jordan uses cutouts and backgrounds from Victorian steel engravings. This film is a color collage of roccoco imagery juxtaposed with symbols of the space age. Jordan says, "Our lady is a kind of guide to the bardo ... the world that a conscious entity passes into after death and before rebirth."; PFA 1604-01-2651. D0391; PFA 1604-01-8304. In March 2000 this reversal print was found to be similar to Lawrence Jordan's personal print which he has always liked, therefore this is the preferred print for PFA exhibition. CONDITION NOTE: Last exhibited : 2003/02/18 very good; there is a base side scratch running through center of frame which appears black on screen CONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 2004/11/23 good; light to fair scratches; good color; PFA 1604-01-2651. CONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 10 April 1993; Excellent condition: color excellent CONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 2004/11/23 very good; light to no scratches; good color

Metadata Source:BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE