Owen Land Movies

“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 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...

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

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

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...

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

“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...

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

“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...

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

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

“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...

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...