Bob Cowan Movies

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...

"...in a film abounding with humor and fertile with suggested points of departure for at least half a dozen more pictures, clearly deserves the...

A ritualistic mood piece with colour-rich images

A special guest appearance by Canadian TV star Bill Ronald along with the massive presence of "Mrs. Bronx" herself, Frances Leibowitz, and her...

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...

"Just what it says." –B. C.

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

"Parts of this film were shot for a mixed media show at the 'Electric Circus' in New York, and were later expanded and re-edited into the present...

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...

This movie was made mostly in Brooklyn during some very hot and empty evenings. Since the evenings were so empty, Jane Elford, the star, urged me to...

"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 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...

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...

"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'...

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

"Just what it says." –B. C.