Owen Land Movies
- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 1971
What's Wrong with This Picture? 1
What's Wrong with This Picture? 101971HD
A found, utilitarian object, the overtly moralizing educational film “How to be a Good Citizen,” is elevated to the status of...
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- 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 Element01961HD
“I made several films while still in high school, one of which was called Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the...
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- 1965
Studies and Sketches in 8mm
Studies and Sketches in 8mm01965HD
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...
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- 1962
Are Era
Are Era01962HD
“Are Era was filmed off of television sets, of TV and news announcers, similar somewhat to Fleming Faloon.” (Owen Land, interviewed by...
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- 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,...
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- 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...
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- 1970
The Leopard Skin
The Leopard Skin01970HD
“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...
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- 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...
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- 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, California31974HD
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....
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 1963
Fleming Faloon
Fleming Faloon41963HD
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...
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