Owen Land Movies

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...

“Both sides are the same time (well,almost). It’s really simultaneous – practically. Except at the end a car burns and that is the...

A revision of Bardo Follies, Diploteratology suggests that “death (destruction of the original image) is not an end but merely the next...

“They were more or less subjective camera films.The camera was my eye, involved in simple daily sorts of activities. One part was colour and...

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,...

1963-65, colour, silent, 17 minutes 8mm original transferred to 16mm 16mm blow up made by Anthology Film Archives in 2001. Contains the films Are...

“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...

“The sore – which is not static, but a series of exposures of a healing infection – is called Not a Case of Lateral Displacement....

“The soundtrack was Baroque harpsichord music composed by Georg Böhm.It was shown privately, and at the Film-Makers’ Cinematheque on...

“The Skin was never, alas, screened publicly. What it is is a leopard skin which is filmed so that something optically happens as the spots...

“Are Era was filmed off of television sets, of TV and news announcers, similar somewhat to Fleming Faloon.” (Owen Land, interviewed by...

“That was a film about a person who had a mystical religious experience. The idea entitled is the early stage of foetal development, the point...

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...

A rough-cut of selected scenes, edited as a sampler to be used in fundraising towards completion of the film "Undesirables". “The idea started...

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...

A found, utilitarian object, the overtly moralizing educational film “How to be a Good Citizen,” is elevated to the status of...