Owen Land Movies

Constructed around a found soundtrack in which a strict female voice delivers a test of perception and comprehension, Institutional Quality’s...

Dialogues is Land's last film: A chaotic, self-reflexive experimental narrative about many, many things-- namely Land himself. A caustic,...

A shot of a Southern Belle waving to a group of tourists on a pleasure boat ride is looped, multiplied and then melted, creating psychedelic abstract...

“The soundtrack was Baroque harpsichord music composed by Georg Böhm.It was shown privately, and at the Film-Makers’ Cinematheque on...

Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of...

Early 16mm film by Meredith Monk also presented as an installation piece to play continuously forward and backward for an unrestricted time period.

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...

“Are Era was filmed off of television sets, of TV and news announcers, similar somewhat to Fleming Faloon.” (Owen Land, interviewed by...

A short documentary about notorious filmmaker Owen Land (aka George Landow) and his most recent film Dialogues (2009). Interviews with cast and crew,...

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...

“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...

A revision of Bardo Follies, Diploteratology suggests that “death (destruction of the original image) is not an end but merely the next...

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...

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....

Following a series of title cards, a man in sunglasses briefly flutters his hands like fairy. Owen Land states that this film was not made by George...

A rapturous audio-visual mix that “deliberately seeks a hidden order in randomness.” The film combines the face of a woman in ecstatic,...

“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...

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,...

“Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation, displacement, representation by opposites, punning...

“Both sides are the same time (well,almost). It’s really simultaneous – practically. Except at the end a car burns and that is the...