Owen Land Movies

1970
The Leopard Skin
The Leopard Skin
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“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...
1984
The Box Theory (Ireko Riron)
The Box Theory (Ireko Riron)
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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
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.
1964
Not a Case of Lateral Displacement
Not a Case of Lateral Displacement
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“The sore – which is not static, but a series of exposures of a healing infection – is called Not a Case of Lateral Displacement....
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, 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....
1978
Diploteratology
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...
1969
Baroque Slippages
Baroque Slippages
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“The soundtrack was Baroque harpsichord music composed by Georg Böhm.It was shown privately, and at the Film-Makers’ Cinematheque on...
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.
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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...
1963
Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club
Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club
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“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...
1962
Are Era
Are Era
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“Are Era was filmed off of television sets, of TV and news announcers, similar somewhat to Fleming Faloon.” (Owen Land, interviewed by...
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 Element
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“I made several films while still in high school, one of which was called Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the...
1965
This Film will be Interrupted after 11 Minutes by a Commercial
This Film will be Interrupted after 11 Minutes by a Commercial
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16mm film loop plus separate 16mm film reel. “You could mention that the ‘cigar commercial’ was for Dutch Masters – surely...
1965
Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous?
Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous?
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“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 Stage
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“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...
1967
Bardo Follies
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...
1963
Fleming Faloon
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...