Owen Land Movies

Feature-length compilation program presenting 37 out of 41 original fluxfilms produced and directed in the 1960s by Fluxus artists, including George...

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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...

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

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Cast: Paul Sharits

Landow rejects the dream imagery of the historical trance film for the self-referential present, using macrobiotics, the language of advertising, and...

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Cast: Owen Land

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...

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Cast: Art Gower

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...

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Two artists create grotesque characters; Two-dimensional drawings which somehow have a life of their own, that exist in the same space as real...

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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...

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

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Cast: Meredith Monk

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

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

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

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Cast: Earl Greaves

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...

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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...

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Cast: Steven M. Zinc

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

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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...

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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....

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

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“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...

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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,...

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

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

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The Land Camera Collective presents a (nearly) shot-by-shot remake of the Owen Land 1977 classic experimental film 'On The Marriage Broker Joke as...

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

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Cast: Arisara

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

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Cast: Arisara

“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...

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“I made several films while still in high school, one of which was called Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the...

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“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...

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

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“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...

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“Fleming Faloon Screening does not document filming of Fleming Faloon. It is only a screening, contrasting the movie images with the interior...

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“The sore – which is not static, but a series of exposures of a healing infection – is called Not a Case of Lateral Displacement....

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“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...

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

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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...

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

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

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