Bob Cowan Movies

“LUST FOR ECSTASY is my most ambitious attempt since my last film…. I wrote many of the pungent scenes on the D train, and when I...

A youth wanders the landscape of grass and sky in search of puzzling impulses.

"A film counterpointing the hard reality of the present with the fantastic actuality or imagining of the idyllic past. This is best realized in the...

A tender and realistic story of a scientist who falls in love with a mummy he has restored to life.

The film combines teenage lust and deranged delinquency to create a cautionary tale for the ages.

Made when I was a bit depressed which is nothing new,. Bob Cowan happened to be depressed as well and so we had a wonderful time working together....

Mike Kuchar'ss lyrical portrait of everyday life, from making art to making love, all as the Vietnam War rages.

"SOUL FREEZE is Cowan's masterpiece to date, and one of the most consciously anguished of films. It is centered around a man who is being 'tempted'...

Edgar, an aristocrat, commissions Camillo to write a play based on an affair he had ten years ago with the Countess del Monaco. But Edgar first has...

An abstract, rhythmically cut film with various images of women, some of whom are dancers. The sound track, which is semi-electronic, is composed and...

The Shadow Glass is roughly based on Ewers' 'Student of Prague'. It concerns a young man who, feeling incapable of surmounting the harsh realities of...

"Just what it says." –B. C.

"A tribute to overwhelming nature, this film is rich in both color and sound. A combination of original footage and images from children's books,...

A dance-music-processional homage to the life force, a unification of nature and man, shot in San Francisco, Yosemite and New Mexico; made on a grant...

"A personal melancholia concerning the death of my mother with my own personal memoir images of school, home, lost first love and fears of my own...

"Just what it says." –B. C.