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Mary Jordan (born August 14, 1969) is an award winning filmmaker, artist, activist and social justice advocate based in New York City. She grew up in the Bronx and in Toronto, Canada. She studied literature, cultural and social anthropology and art. She has lived in Australia, India, Thailand and Burma and traveled in more than 50 countries. At the age of 18, after a trip through North Africa, she made her first documentary film, a work about female circumcision. Jordan was especially interested in rites of passage and in matriarchal and polygamous societies, like in Papua New Guinea. At the age of 20 she was the producer of Canadian directors like Steve Chase and Marco Brambilla. In Sydney, Australia she founded the production firm Indigo Blue for music videos and commercials.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?3924 )〕 Since 2005 she is mainly living and working in New York. In 2005 she had already been acclaimed by the magazine filmmaker as one of the 25 "new faces of independent film-making". The same year, in the Old Chelsea Y.M.C.A. in New York she held an exhibition about Jack Smith, including films, photographs and radio-broadcasts of his as well as interviews with his friends. In New York she set up a performance art troupe called Parthenogenesis who performed in venues from CBGB's, the Box, Canal Room and to many under ground theatres and lofts. She directed 42 different performances with the troupe.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=bombsite.com )〕 Mary Jordan is the Founder and Creative Director of (Word Above the Street ), a not-for-profit established in 2010. Leveraging the transformational power of art and technology, Word Above the Street pioneers fresh methods of communication to produce visionary art exhibitions that capture the imagination, stir the conscience, and have the power to change the world. While working on an ethnographic film about the Hammer people in Ethiopia, Jordan became acutely aware of the extreme challenges that the population faced in accessing clean water. Galvanized by this experience, Jordan was determined to create an awareness campaign around the issue of water scarcity. The Water Tank Project is Mary Jordan’s current venture and Word Above the Street's inaugural project. In the summer of 2014, carefully selected rooftop tanks across New York City will be temporarily wrapped with original artwork on the subject of water. This production will redefine the skyline across all five boroughs and affect millions of people around the world. Jordan spoke at the Festival of Ideas for the New City in 2011, where she presented The Water Tank Project, and at PolicyLink Equity Summit 2011 in Detroit, where she was a guest speaker. She is also developing a curriculum for (the Earth Institute at Columbia University ) on art and advocacy. Jordan spoke on The Water Tank Project and the intersection of art and advocacy at the (Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia ) conference at the (Venice Architecture Biennale ) on October 3, 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.biennials.ch/home/EventDetail.aspx?EventId=37 )〕 In September 2013 Jordan spoke at the Social Good Summit along with Al Gore, Melinda Gates and other. She inspired the crowd with a speech on water that had the audience chanting "put water above all" 〔|url=http://new.livestream.com/Mashable/sgs2013/videos/30755859〕 Jordan has become a speaker for water and sustainability and has spoken at educational institutions such as NYU, Columbia University and the New School. ==Filmmaker== Mary Jordan’s first feature-length film, Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/movies/11atla.html?scp=2&sq=JAck%20Smith%20and%20the%20destruction%20of%20atlantis&st=cse )〕 produced by the American artist Richard Prince, was named one of the top ten A-list movies of 2007 by Entertainment Weekly.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=ew.com )〕 Exhibited worldwide, it received the Tribeca Film Festival Jury Award,〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=indiewire.com )〕 the Best Documentary Award from the Torino International Film Festival,〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=imdb.com )〕 the Jury Award for the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film and the Jury Award for Extraordinary Documentary Film Talent. Noted for its boundary-breaking aesthetic, it was exhibited at the Venice Biennial, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Brisbane Powerhouse, ISSUE Project Room,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.issueprojectroom.org/film/mary-jordan-presents-jack-smith-and-the-destruction-of-atlantis/ )〕 and Nuit Blanche in Paris, and has been utilized by film schools around the globe, including NYU and the New School. On September 19, 2002, Jordan filmed an interview with Branford Marsalis for Marsalis Music. Filmmaker Magazine named Jordan one of the top 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2005 〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Filmmakermagazine.com )〕 The recipient of grants from Judith Rothschild, the Agnes Gund Foundation, the (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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=05.performa-arts.org )〕 Mary Jordan was featured in Nathan Shedroff’s book Experience Design first published by New Riders and now Experience Design Books.〔Experience Design 1.1, Experience Design Books: www.experiencedesignbooks.com/EXP1.1〕 Shedroff is an experience strategist and has designed experiences in a variety of media, especially interactive and information design and branding. In his book he lists 100 great design experiences including Mary Jordan’s performance series, The Burmese Tea Ceremony. 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. Jordan is currently making a feature-length art film on the performance group the Angels of Light from San Francisco. This is a film to made for free and given for free to the public. Angels of Light will be features at the (Museum of Contemporary Art Denver )’s upcoming exhibition, (West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977 ). In 2011 in Tallinn, Jordan directed and orchestrated a performance with dancers from the (Ballet Preljocaj ), (the Vox choir ) and composer Tõnu Kaljuste. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Jordan (filmmaker)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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