Owen Land Movies

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...
1965
This Film Will Be Interrupted After 11 Minutes by a Commercial
This Film Will Be Interrupted After 11 Minutes by a Commercial
01965HD
16mm film loop 'Film In Which There Appear...' is shown, then separate 16mm film of a cigar commericial, then back to first loop. “You could...
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....
1963
Fleming Faloon Screening
Fleming Faloon Screening
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“Fleming Faloon Screening does not document filming of Fleming Faloon. It is only a screening, contrasting the movie images with the interior...
1966
The Evil Faerie
The Evil Faerie
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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...
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...
1975
Wide Angle Saxon
Wide Angle Saxon
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An interpretation of The Confessions of Saint Augustine featuring an ordinary middle-aged man who undergoes a conversion experience whilst watching...
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...
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...
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...
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...
1975
No Sir, Orison!
No Sir, Orison!
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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...
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?'
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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...
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...
1983
Noli me tangere
Noli me tangere
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“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...