Owen Land Movies

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

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

“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...

16mm film loop plus separate 16mm film reel. “You could mention that the ‘cigar commercial’ was for Dutch Masters – surely...

“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...

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,...

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

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

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...

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....

An interpretation of The Confessions of Saint Augustine featuring an ordinary middle-aged man who undergoes a conversion experience whilst watching...

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

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...

A rough-cut of selected scenes, edited as a sampler to be used in fundraising towards completion of the film "Undesirables". “The idea started...

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...

A found, utilitarian object, the overtly moralizing educational film “How to be a Good Citizen,” is elevated to the status of...