User:Tammyhan/Mary Jordan (Artist/Filmmaker/Curator)

Mary Jordan’s first feature length film, Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis, produced by the American artist Richard Prince, was named one of the top ten A-list movies of 2007 by Entertainment Weekly. Exhibited worldwide, it received the Tribeca International Film Festival Jury Award, the Best Documentary Award from the Torino International Film Festival, and the Jury Award for Extraordinary Documentary Film Talent. Noted for its boundary-breaking aesthetic, it was exhibited at the Venice Art Biennial, House of World Cultures Museum in Berlin, Brisbane Powerhouse, Issue Project, and Nuit Blance in Paris, and has been utilized by film schools around the globe, including NYU and the New School. Filmmaker Magazine named Jordan one of the top 25 filmmakers to look out for.

Mary Jordan is currently working on her next feature documentary on the radical gender-bending free theater troupe that was born out of a San Francisco commune titled The Angels of Light.

The recipient of grants from Judith Rothschild, the Agnes Gund Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Frameline, Jordan was also one of the first artists to be invited to perform in Performa, the highly acclaimed Performance Art Biennial in New York City run by RoseLee Goldberg. She is the Creative Director of Word Above the Street, a non-profit international arts organization dedicated to combining art and cultural programming with social advocacy based in New York. Her newest venture, The Water Tank Project, utilizes New York City’s iconic water tanks for a large-scale public artwork that will draw attention to the global water crisis.

She has exhibited her film work at festivals including London Film Festival, BFI (British Film Institute), International Film Festival of Rotterdam, Los Angeles Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Copenhagen International Film Festival, Sydney International Film Festival, Pacific Film & Television Commission. Her work has been theatrically released and exhibited at Film Forum in New York City, on the Sundance Channel, and on multiple network stations. Her own background as a painter, artist, and performance artist, meanwhile, has caused her selection as director of upcoming features on artists Ed Ruscha and Richard Prince.

A tireless champion of human rights, Jordan has also produced award-winning documentary work in Burma, Africa, Indonesia, and India. She has worked with Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in the refugee camps on the Thai-Burmese border, with the Millenium Foundation, the International Center for Human Rights and Tolerance Education in NYC, and was chosen by the Children’s Movement Organization to direct their feature documentary on the war torn children of Bosnia.

She is currently working with Colombia University’s Earth Institute with a specialization in water conservation and designing a unique curriculm for the graduate students.

Other festivals include:

LONDON FILM FESTIVAL

BFI (British Film Institute)

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL

SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

PACIFIC FILM & TELEVISION COMISSION

AVANTO & THE FINNISH FILM ARCHIVE

BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL DU NOUVEAU CINEMA

LEEDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

PROVINCETOWN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

MIAMI GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL

MILWAUKEE LGBT FILM FESTIVAL

PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL

FLAHERTY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

COPENHAGEN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL

Art work display:

HOUSE OF WORLD CULTURES— New York : States of Mind, Berlin 2007

BRISBANE POWERHOUSE – June 1st-7th, 2007

CENTRE DE CULTURA CONTEMPORàNEA DE BARCELONA- Bareclona, Spain. March 2007

NUIT BLANCHE- Paris, France. October 2008

GALERIE DANIEL BUCHHOLZ – August 2008

ISSUE Project Room

LOUIS K MEISEL GALLERY—New York, installation art group show, September 17th 2006

DOCUMENTAl— Santa Monica, CA. April 2009

SALON DES AMATEURS— Collaboration with local Kunsthalle and Independent BlackBox Cinema. Duesseldorf, Germany

ENGINE COLLISION FESTIVAL – Los Angeles, March 2nd, 2009