There are some excellent resources here. Coleridge provides the story and words. Welles provides the narration. Dore provides the illustration and visuals.
So you'd think with such talent backing this project that the director would find something to say with everything available to him. Unfortunately, that is the problem with Jordan. He often draws from great sources, but has nothing to add to them.
If you've read the poem and seen the lush illustration, then there's little to draw from watching this. There's no experience or perspective to be gained.
Jordan is a competent visual designer, but if you are looking for art that communicates ideas or tells its own story, he has nothing to offer.
And perhaps design is enough for the projects that Jordan creates. But it would be disingenuous to describe it as art or experimental. Such things require substance.
So you'd think with such talent backing this project that the director would find something to say with everything available to him. Unfortunately, that is the problem with Jordan. He often draws from great sources, but has nothing to add to them.
If you've read the poem and seen the lush illustration, then there's little to draw from watching this. There's no experience or perspective to be gained.
Jordan is a competent visual designer, but if you are looking for art that communicates ideas or tells its own story, he has nothing to offer.
And perhaps design is enough for the projects that Jordan creates. But it would be disingenuous to describe it as art or experimental. Such things require substance.