HAMFAT ASAR
LAWRENCE JORDAN • 13m
The strangeness of HAMFAT ASAR is laced with carefully molded apocalypses as the filmmaker explores a vision of life beyond death. A moving single picture. Evolving the structure or script for the film involved a process of controlled hallucination, whereby the filmmaker sat quietly without moving, looking at the background until the pieces began to move without his inventing things for them to do. He found that, given the chance, they really did have important business to attend to. His job was to furnish them with the power of motion. He never deviated from this plan.
Up Next in LAWRENCE JORDAN
-
MINERVA LOOKS OUT INTO THE ZODIAC
From a central pivotal position, the camera eye (in this case, the hard and inflexible eye of Minerva) looks out upon twelve passing scenes. None of the scenes are necessarily associated with specific signs of the Zodiac. Lawrence Jordan instead assembled twelve of his collages and passed them in...
-
MOONLIGHT SONATA
Animated to the rhythms of the fifth "Gnossienne" by Erik Satie. The moon and moonlight are the guiding lights of this visual interpretation and Lawrence Jordan kept the backgrounds in soft greens and blues accordingly. Only the cosmic tumbler, whose enigma is emphasized by his red color, breaks ...
-
THE OGRE'S GARDEN
Despite its title, this brevity is somewhat romantic. We do see the ogre, however. He inverts himself into the action throughout the film. As usual, the action is partly symbolic, partly surreal (if those two can ever be separated). Toward the end, Eadweard Muybridge still-sequences are brought t...
