Owen Land Movies

1983
Noli me tangere
Noli me tangere
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“The idea behind it is: Feminists claim that men objectify women’s bodies. So this was a revenge or a punishment for men who did that...
1965
This Film will be Interrupted after 11 Minutes by a Commercial
This Film will be Interrupted after 11 Minutes by a Commercial
01965HD
16mm film loop plus separate 16mm film reel. “You could mention that the ‘cigar commercial’ was for Dutch Masters – surely...
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....
1973
Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present
Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present
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A rapturous audio-visual mix that “deliberately seeks a hidden order in randomness.” The film combines the face of a woman in ecstatic,...
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...
1963
Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club
Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club
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“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...
1966
The Evil Faerie
The Evil Faerie
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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...
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,...
1976
New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops
New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops
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A reworking of an earlier film, Institutional Quality, in which the same test was given. In the earlier film, the person taking the test was not...
1975
No Sir, Orison!
No Sir, Orison!
01975HD
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...
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...
1964
Not a Case of Lateral Displacement
Not a Case of Lateral Displacement
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“The sore – which is not static, but a series of exposures of a healing infection – is called Not a Case of Lateral Displacement....
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...
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...
1961
A Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage
A Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage
01961HD
“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...
1965
Studies and Sketches in 8mm
Studies and Sketches in 8mm
01965HD
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...