Owen Land Movies

1970
The Leopard Skin
The Leopard Skin
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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...
1975
No Sir, Orison!
No Sir, Orison!
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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...
1974
A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California
A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California
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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....
1978
Diploteratology
Diploteratology
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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...
1965
This Film will be Interrupted after 11 Minutes by a Commercial
This Film will be Interrupted after 11 Minutes by a Commercial
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16mm film loop plus separate 16mm film reel. “You could mention that the ‘cigar commercial’ was for Dutch Masters – surely...
1961
A Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage
A Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage
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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...
1961
Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the Restrictive or Non-Restrictive Element
Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the Restrictive or Non-Restrictive Element
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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...
1984
The Box Theory (Ireko Riron)
The Box Theory (Ireko Riron)
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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,...
1975
Wide Angle Saxon
Wide Angle Saxon
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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...
1969
Baroque Slippages
Baroque Slippages
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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...
1965
Studies and Sketches in 8mm
Studies and Sketches in 8mm
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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...
1965
Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous?
Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous?
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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...
1962
Are Era
Are Era
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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...
1999
Excerpts from a Work in Progress (Undesirables)
Excerpts from a Work in Progress (Undesirables)
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A rough-cut of selected scenes, edited as a sampler to be used in fundraising towards completion of the film "Undesirables". “The idea started...
1963
Fleming Faloon Screening
Fleming Faloon Screening
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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...
1967
Bardo Follies
Bardo Follies
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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...