Owen Land Movies

1975
No Sir, Orison!
No Sir, Orison!
01975HD
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...
1975
Wide Angle Saxon
Wide Angle Saxon
4.21975HD
An interpretation of The Confessions of Saint Augustine featuring an ordinary middle-aged man who undergoes a conversion experience whilst watching...
1963
Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club
Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club
01963HD
“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...
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...
1965
Studies and Sketches in 8mm
Studies and Sketches in 8mm
01965HD
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...
1970
The Leopard Skin
The Leopard Skin
01970HD
“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...
1963
Fleming Faloon Screening
Fleming Faloon Screening
01963HD
“Fleming Faloon Screening does not document filming of Fleming Faloon. It is only a screening, contrasting the movie images with the interior...
1962
Are Era
Are Era
01962HD
“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
01961HD
“I made several films while still in high school, one of which was called Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the...
1984
The Box Theory (Ireko Riron)
The Box Theory (Ireko Riron)
01984HD
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,...
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...
1964
Not a Case of Lateral Displacement
Not a Case of Lateral Displacement
01964HD
“The sore – which is not static, but a series of exposures of a healing infection – is called Not a Case of Lateral Displacement....
1961
Two Pieces for the Precarious Life
Two Pieces for the Precarious Life
01961HD
“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...
1973
Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present
Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present
41973HD
A rapturous audio-visual mix that “deliberately seeks a hidden order in randomness.” The film combines the face of a woman in ecstatic,...
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...
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...