Owen Land
George Landow (1944 – June 8, 2011), also known as Owen Land, was a painter, writer, playwright, photographer, and experimental filmmaker. Shortly after the release of his film On the Marriage Broker Joke... (1977), Landow rearranged his name to Owen Land, an anagram of "Landow N.E." He has also worked under pen names Orphan Morphan and Apollo Jize.
According to film historian Mark Webber, Land made early films as a teenager, and his later films, made mostly during the 1960s and 1970s, are some of the first examples of the "structural film" movement. Land's films usually involve wordplay, and have been described by Webber as having a humor & wit that separates his films from the "boring" world of avant-garde cinema. Webber also said that he was inspired by Joyce, Beckett, and Ionesco. While the humorous aspects of his films makes them appealing to audiences who are not familiar with the perceived hermetic and insular world of avant-garde film, many of his works function as sharp parody of the experimental & "structural film" movement. The book Two Films By Owen Land (Lux, London) features the complete scripts of Landow/Land's films Wide Angle Saxon and On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?, as well as footnotes written by Land interpreting the many references and elements of these two films and a filmography by Mark Webber. Released in May 2011, the book "Dialogues - a film by Owen Land" (Paraguay Press, Paris) features the complete script of his last film, as well as two interviews with the artist.
Fotos
Filme (37)
Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970
2010 · Director
In the Land of Owen
2009
Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind
2009 · Director, Writer, Executive Producer
On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Owen Land...in the Film 'On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?'
2009 · Writer
Excerpts from a Work in Progress (Undesirables)
1999 · Director
The Box Theory (Ireko Riron)
1984 · Director
Noli me tangere
1983 · Director
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
1979 · Al Rutcurts
Diploteratology
1978 · Director
On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?
1977 · Director
New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops
1976 · Director
Wide Angle Saxon
1975 · Director
No Sir, Orison!
1975 · Director
A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California
1974 · Director
Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present
1973 · Director
What's Wrong with This Picture? 2
1972 · Director
What's Wrong with This Picture? 1
1971 · Director
Remedial Reading Comprehension
1970 · Director
Institutional Quality
1969 · Director
Baroque Slippages
1969 · Director
The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter
1968 · Director
Ball Bearing
1968 · Cinematography
Bardo Follies
1967 · Director
Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc.
1966 · Director
The Evil Faerie
1966 · Director
Studies and Sketches in 8mm
1965 · Director
This Film Will Be Interrupted After 11 Minutes by a Commercial
1965 · Director
Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous?
1965 · Director
Not a Case of Lateral Displacement
1964 · Director
Fleming Faloon
1963 · Director
Fleming Faloon Screening
1963 · Director
Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club
1963 · Director
Are Era
1962 · Director
A Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage
1961 · Director
Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the Restrictive or Non-Restrictive Element
1961 · Director
Two Pieces for the Precarious Life
1961 · Director
The Leopard Skin
· Director
Serien (0)
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