Owen Land Movies
- 2009
In the Land of Owen
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A short documentary about notorious filmmaker Owen Land (aka George Landow) and his most recent film Dialogues (2009). Interviews with cast and crew,...
- 1977
On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?
On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?4.91977HD
“Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation, displacement, representation by opposites, punning...
- 1978
Diploteratology
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A revision of Bardo Follies, Diploteratology suggests that “death (destruction of the original image) is not an end but merely the next...
- 1973
Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present
Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present41973HD
A rapturous audio-visual mix that “deliberately seeks a hidden order in randomness.” The film combines the face of a woman in ecstatic,...
- 1983
Noli me tangere
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“The idea behind it is: Feminists claim that men objectify women’s bodies. So this was a revenge or a punishment for men who did that...
- 1975
Wide Angle Saxon
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An interpretation of The Confessions of Saint Augustine featuring an ordinary middle-aged man who undergoes a conversion experience whilst watching...
- 1974
A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California
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A radical Christian group's lecture tour of US colleges was filmed in the cinema verité tradition, with hand held camera, sync and wild sound....
- 1963
Fleming Faloon
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In his first 16mm film, Landow proposes that if we accept the reality offered to us by the illusion of depth on the flat plane of the screen, we can...
- 2009
Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind
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Dialogues is Land's last film: A chaotic, self-reflexive experimental narrative about many, many things-- namely Land himself. A caustic,...
- 1967
Bardo Follies
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A shot of a Southern Belle waving to a group of tourists on a pleasure boat ride is looped, multiplied and then melted, creating psychedelic abstract...
- 1984
The Box Theory (Ireko Riron)
The Box Theory (Ireko Riron)01984HD
In The Box Theory, Owen Land, the uncanny American structuralist, king of the absurd and a religious addict, recreates the image of the Indian girl,...
- 1968
Ball Bearing
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Early 16mm film by Meredith Monk also presented as an installation piece to play continuously forward and backward for an unrestricted time period.
- 1975
No Sir, Orison!
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After singing a vivacious song of love in the aisle of a supermarket, the performer kneels down to ask forgiveness for those involved in the...
- 1999
Excerpts from a Work in Progress (Undesirables)
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A rough-cut of selected scenes, edited as a sampler to be used in fundraising towards completion of the film "Undesirables". “The idea started...
- 1972
What's Wrong with This Picture? 2
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As Landow and his students were testing a new video camera, an elderly man began to talk to them about new technology. This impromptu conversation...
- 1971
What's Wrong with This Picture? 1
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A found, utilitarian object, the overtly moralizing educational film “How to be a Good Citizen,” is elevated to the status of...