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Nick Jordan
Nick Jordan at Horseshoe Lake, Illinois
Born (1967-07-28) 28 July 1967 (age 57)
Chigwell, Essex, England
NationalityBritish
EducationManchester Metropolitan University
Nottingham Trent University
OccupationArtist
Websitehttp://www.nickjordan.info

Nick Jordan is a visual artist and experimental filmmaker based in Manchester, UK.[1] Jordan's work has been exhibited widely, including at Innsbruck International Biennale (Austria); ICA (London); Kunstmuseum (Bonn); Academia de Cine (Madrid); Garage Center for Contemporary Culture (Moscow); Musée du quai Branly (Paris).[2] Nick Jordan also works in a collaborative practice with fellow artist Jacob Cartwright, see Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan.

The artist's practice is cross-disciplinary, encompassing film, drawing, painting, photography, objects, publications and collaboration, and often explores the relationship between the natural world and cultural history.[3]

Nick Jordan's short films deploy a documentary approach, photographed in direct response to particular locations. The edited works present oblique, layered narratives and cinematic sequences; with treated soundtracks that combine voice-overs, original musical scores and ambient sound recordings.

Nick Jordan's films have won a number of awards, with screenings at many international film festivals, including BFI London Film Festival;Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival; Kassel Dokfest; Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF); São Paulo International Short Film Festival; VIS Vienna; Portland International Film Festival; IndiLisboa; Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival; Interfilm Berlin; Documenta (Madrid).

Nick Jordan is the co-director of Between Two Rivers (2012)[4] – a feature-length documentary about the town of Cairo, Illinois. The film was awarded Best Film at Big Muddy Film Festival (2012) and River’s Edge International Film Festival (2012) [5]

Publications include Alien Invaders, published by Book Works, which takes the form of a guidebook to non-native species found in Britain, and the effects on native wildlife.[6]

Other publications include Some Mild Peril[7] (Castlefield Gallery, 2004);The Audubon Trilogy (Dedecus, 2010), a chapbook and series of short films drawn from the writings of 19th-century artist and frontiersman John James Audubon, following his escapades along the Ohio river and Mississippi river;[8] and Heaven, Hell and Other Places, a documentary on Emanuel Swedenborg, commissioned by The Swedenborg Society.[9]

Filmography

  • MERZMONGO, 2016
  • Last Acre, 2016 (C&J)
  • The Atom Station, 2015
  • The Emotions of Others, 2015 (C&J)
  • Off the Trail, 2015 (C&J)
  • Headlands Lookout, 2014 (C&J)
  • The Rising, 2014
  • Nature House Inc., 2013
  • Between Two Rivers, 2012 (C&J)
  • American Water, 2011 (C&J)
  • Monument to Swedenborg, 2010 (C&J)
  • Heaven, Hell and Other Places, 2010 (C&J)
  • Confluence, 2010 (C&J)
  • How the air feels to the birds, 2009
  • The Reapers, 2009 (C&J)
  • Cairo, 2009 (C&J)
  • West Point, 2008 (C&J)
  • New Madrid, 2008 (C&J)
  • How The Cutter Works, 2008
  • Eight Themes for the Golden Record, 2008 (C&J)
  • Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown), 2007
  • Descriptions & Sketches of Some Remarkable Oaks, 2007 (C&J)
  • Let the user speak next, 2006
  • Prequel, 2006
  • William Carlos Williams, 2005
  • Edgar, 2005 (C&J)
  • Havanazephyr, 2005
  • Grubber, 2004 (C&J)
  • 12 Dogs, 2004
  • Notes on the Cinematograph, 2004
  • Highwater Everywhere Part 2, 2003
  • Fury, 2003
  • Hank Williams Setting The Woods On Fire, 2003
  • Another Road Movie, 2003
  • A Road Movie, 2003
  • Roused By My Epilepsy, 2003
  • Transistor Man, 2003

Notes

  1. ^ "Alien Invaders Brought To Book", Towle, Nick. South Manchester Reporter, 21 September 2006
  2. ^ "Film Material Soup"
  3. ^ "Strange and Wonderful" Sandhu, Sukhdev. The New Statesman, 18 December 2006.
  4. ^ "Between Two Rivers". Retrieved 13 January 2012.
  5. ^ "Filmakers Library". Retrieved June 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  6. ^ "Alien Invaders review" The Guardian, Clee, Nicholas. 9 September 2006.
  7. ^ "Some Mild Peril"
  8. ^ "The Audubon Trilogy: Fugitive Narratives and the Drama of the Natural World" Jones, T.J, Carbondale Nightlife, July 2010
  9. ^ "Heaven, Hell and Other Places" Swedenborg Society.
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