Owen Land Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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,...