Owen Land
Directing
Born 1944-01-01
Died 2011-06-08
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
37 credits
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George Landow (1944 – June 8, 2011), also known as Owen Land, was a painter, writer, playwright, photographer, and experimental filmmaker. Shortly after the release of his film On the Marriage Broker Joke... (1977), Landow rearranged his name to Owen Land, an anagram of "Landow N.E." He has also worked under pen names Orphan Morphan and Apollo Jize.
According to film historian Mark Webber, Land made early films as a teenager, and his later films, made mostly during the 1960s and 1970s, are some of the first examples of the "structural film" movement. Land's films usually involve wordplay, and have been described by Webber as having a humor & wit that separates his films from the "boring" world of avant-garde cinema. Webber also said that he was inspired by Joyce, Beckett, and Ionesco. While the humorous aspects of his films makes them appealing to audiences who are not familiar with the perceived hermetic and insular world of avant-garde film, many of his works function as sharp parody of the experimental & "structural film" movement. The book Two Films By Owen Land (Lux, London) features the complete scripts of Landow/Land's films Wide Angle Saxon and On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?, as well as footnotes written by Land interpreting the many references and elements of these two films and a filmography by Mark Webber. Released in May 2011, the book "Dialogues - a film by Owen Land" (Paraguay Press, Paris) features the complete script of his last film, as well as two interviews with the artist.
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Filmography
Directing
33 credits
Institutional Quality
Fleming Faloon
Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970
Bardo Follies
Noli me tangere
Baroque Slippages
Wide Angle Saxon
Are Era
Diploteratology
A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California
The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter
Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc.
New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops
What's Wrong with This Picture? 1
This Film Will Be Interrupted After 11 Minutes by a Commercial
The Evil Faerie
Remedial Reading Comprehension
Fleming Faloon Screening
What's Wrong with This Picture? 2
No Sir, Orison!
Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club
The Leopard Skin
Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present
Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind
A Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage
Not a Case of Lateral Displacement
Two Pieces for the Precarious Life
The Box Theory (Ireko Riron)
Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous?
Excerpts from a Work in Progress (Undesirables)
Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the Restrictive or Non-Restrictive Element
Studies and Sketches in 8mm
On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?
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Writing
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