Bob Cowan Movies

“LUST FOR ECSTASY is my most ambitious attempt since my last film…. I wrote many of the pungent scenes on the D train, and when I...

Ken Jacobs’s most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of...

Seadrift is based on a story The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft, and was shot partially in Marblehead Mass. Each section represents a...

A ritualistic mood piece with colour-rich images

Edgar, an aristocrat, commissions Camillo to write a play based on an affair he had ten years ago with the Countess del Monaco. But Edgar first has...

An abstract, rhythmically cut film with various images of women, some of whom are dancers. The sound track, which is semi-electronic, is composed and...

"A personal melancholia concerning the death of my mother with my own personal memoir images of school, home, lost first love and fears of my own...

"A tribute to overwhelming nature, this film is rich in both color and sound. A combination of original footage and images from children's books,...

"SOUL FREEZE is Cowan's masterpiece to date, and one of the most consciously anguished of films. It is centered around a man who is being 'tempted'...

"Just what it says." –B. C.

"From the way the film begins, and the way the outside images are used, it is clear that they are not intended to be entirely specific to the girl;...

"Just what it says." –B. C.

A dance-music-processional homage to the life force, a unification of nature and man, shot in San Francisco, Yosemite and New Mexico; made on a grant...

"A tribute to overwhelming nature, this film is rich in both color and sound. A combination of original footage and images from children's books,...