Owen Land Movies

Dialogues is Land's last film: A chaotic, self-reflexive experimental narrative about many, many things-- namely Land himself. A caustic,...

Two artists create grotesque characters; Two-dimensional drawings which somehow have a life of their own, that exist in the same space as real...

Landow rejects the dream imagery of the historical trance film for the self-referential present, using macrobiotics, the language of advertising, and...

A rapturous audio-visual mix that “deliberately seeks a hidden order in randomness.” The film combines the face of a woman in ecstatic,...

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...

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...

“Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation, displacement, representation by opposites, punning...

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...

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...

A short documentary about notorious filmmaker Owen Land (aka George Landow) and his most recent film Dialogues (2009). Interviews with cast and crew,...

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

An interpretation of The Confessions of Saint Augustine featuring an ordinary middle-aged man who undergoes a conversion experience whilst watching...

“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...

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

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...

16mm film loop plus separate 16mm film reel. “You could mention that the ‘cigar commercial’ was for Dutch Masters – surely...

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

“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...

“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...

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