Owen Land Movies
- 1970
Remedial Reading Comprehension
Remedial Reading Comprehension4.21970HD
Landow rejects the dream imagery of the historical trance film for the self-referential present, using macrobiotics, the language of advertising, and...
- 1968
The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter
The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter4.81968HD
Two artists create grotesque characters; Two-dimensional drawings which somehow have a life of their own, that exist in the same space as real...
- 1961
Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the Restrictive or Non-Restrictive Element
Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the Restrictive or Non-Restrictive Element01961HD
“I made several films while still in high school, one of which was called Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the...
- 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...
- 2009
On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Owen Land...in the Film '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 Owen Land...in the Film '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?'102009HD
The Land Camera Collective presents a (nearly) shot-by-shot remake of the Owen Land 1977 classic experimental film 'On The Marriage Broker Joke as...
- 1966
Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc.
Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc.41966HD
Film in Which There Appear... is a six-minute loop of the double-printed image of a "China girl" or "Shirley card", her image off-center, making...
- 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,...
- 1966
The Evil Faerie
The Evil Faerie5.21966HD
Following a series of title cards, a man in sunglasses briefly flutters his hands like fairy. Owen Land states that this film was not made by George...
- 1968
Ball Bearing
Ball Bearing01968HD
Early 16mm film by Meredith Monk also presented as an installation piece to play continuously forward and backward for an unrestricted time period.
- 1969
Institutional Quality
Institutional Quality61969HD
Constructed around a found soundtrack in which a strict female voice delivers a test of perception and comprehension, Institutional Quality’s...
- 2009
In the Land of Owen
In the Land of Owen02009HD
A short documentary about notorious filmmaker Owen Land (aka George Landow) and his most recent film Dialogues (2009). Interviews with cast and crew,...
- 1976
New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops
New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops6.31976HD
A reworking of an earlier film, Institutional Quality, in which the same test was given. In the earlier film, the person taking the test was not...
- 1978
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance81978HD
Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of...
- 2009
Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind
Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind02009HD
Dialogues is Land's last film: A chaotic, self-reflexive experimental narrative about many, many things-- namely Land himself. A caustic,...
- 1975
Wide Angle Saxon
Wide Angle Saxon4.21975HD
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
A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California31974HD
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 Screening
Fleming Faloon Screening01963HD
“Fleming Faloon Screening does not document filming of Fleming Faloon. It is only a screening, contrasting the movie images with the interior...
- 1965
This Film will be Interrupted after 11 Minutes by a Commercial
This Film will be Interrupted after 11 Minutes by a Commercial01965HD
16mm film loop plus separate 16mm film reel. “You could mention that the ‘cigar commercial’ was for Dutch Masters – surely...
- 1967
Bardo Follies
Bardo Follies4.51967HD
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...
- 1963
Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club
Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club01963HD
“There is a TV screen superimposed over his face, his face being the screen and the screen being the image.The image of a TV screen can be an...