Bob Cowan Movies

"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'...

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...

"Just what it says." –B. C.

The film combines teenage lust and deranged delinquency to create a cautionary tale for the ages.

" ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BLESSED culminates my involvement with artist Red Grooms and Mimi Gross. It is a diary of our work as we head for the Pacific...

"Just what it says." –B. C.

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...

"...in a film abounding with humor and fertile with suggested points of departure for at least half a dozen more pictures, clearly deserves the...

"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;...

"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,...

Mike Kuchar'ss lyrical portrait of everyday life, from making art to making love, all as the Vietnam War rages.

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,...

"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...