Owen Land Movies
- 1968
The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter
The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter4.91968HD
Two artists create grotesque characters; Two-dimensional drawings which somehow have a life of their own, that exist in the same space as real...
- 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,...
- 1979
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance81979HD
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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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
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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1999
Excerpts from a Work in Progress (Undesirables)
Excerpts from a Work in Progress (Undesirables)01999HD
A rough-cut of selected scenes, edited as a sampler to be used in fundraising towards completion of the film "Undesirables". “The idea started...
- 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...
- 1972
What's Wrong with This Picture? 2
What's Wrong with This Picture? 201972HD
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...
- 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...
- 1978
Diploteratology
Diploteratology61978HD
A revision of Bardo Follies, Diploteratology suggests that “death (destruction of the original image) is not an end but merely the next...
- 1965
Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous?
Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous?01965HD
“Both sides are the same time (well,almost). It’s really simultaneous – practically. Except at the end a car burns and that is the...
- 1961
A Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage
A Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage01961HD
“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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1961
Two Pieces for the Precarious Life
Two Pieces for the Precarious Life01961HD
“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...