Owen Land Movies

1976
New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops
New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops
6.31976HD
A reworking of an earlier film, Institutional Quality, in which the same test was given. In the earlier film, the person taking the test was not...
1970
Remedial Reading Comprehension
Remedial Reading Comprehension
4.21970HD
Landow rejects the dream imagery of the historical trance film for the self-referential present, using macrobiotics, the language of advertising, and...
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...
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...
1961
A Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage
A Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage
01961HD
“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...
1983
Noli me tangere
Noli me tangere
01983HD
“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...
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...
1972
What's Wrong with This Picture? 2
What's Wrong with This Picture? 2
01972HD
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...
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...
1968
The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter
The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter
4.91968HD
Two artists create grotesque characters; Two-dimensional drawings which somehow have a life of their own, that exist in the same space as real...
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...
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...
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
31974HD
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....
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...
1978
Diploteratology
Diploteratology
61978HD
A revision of Bardo Follies, Diploteratology suggests that “death (destruction of the original image) is not an end but merely the next...
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...