Owen Land Movies

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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....

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

“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...

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

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

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

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

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

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