At the close of the first decade of the 2000s, Lawrence Jordan wove together a vast river of image and sound from unused film material piled-up in his studio since 1952. In essence, this is his visual autobiography, including clips from strange and unusual appropriated footage, outtakes from many of his films as well as material from uncompleted projects.

Early in this fifth chapter, comprising reels thirteen to fifteen, we see a title-card suggesting an "End" and yet we have arrived at the not-quite-halfway point of CIRCUS SAVAGE. A reflecting pool of six decades of filmmaking in under sixty minutes, we begin with a travelogue of woodland and grassland sights without sounds and then venture with the wayback machine to VISIONS OF A CITY (filmed in 1957 yet edited in the late-1970s)—with musical co-collaborator Morton Subotnick's "The Wild Bull" appropriately snippet-ed on the soundtrack—followed by a return to additional moments lifted from SPECTRE MYSTAGOGIC (1957) and the gardens of TAPESTRY (1988) along with outtakes from otherwise unfinished films (and another premature "End"). Lastly, the CIRCUS explores unused footage from the legendary CORNELL, 1965 (filmed during Jordan's time as Joseph Cornell's assistant in, as the title illustrates, the mid-1960s but completed, like VISIONS OF A CITY, in 1978), concluding with material from THE SACRED ART OF TIBET (1972), THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER (1977), assorted other animated and live-action projects real, imagined (accompanied by Terry Riley's "A Rainbow in Curved Air") and, lastly (visually and audibly), a redux of the fantastic OUR LADY OF THE SPHERE (1968).