Owen Land
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1944
- Died
- June 8, 2011 (aged 67)
- Birthplace
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc.
Remedial Reading Comprehension
The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter
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?
Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present
New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
Wide Angle Saxon
The Evil Faerie
Bardo Follies
A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California
What's Wrong with This Picture? 1
Filmography
The Leopard Skin
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Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970
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Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind
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Excerpts from a Work in Progress (Undesirables)
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The Box Theory (Ireko Riron)
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Noli me tangere
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Diploteratology
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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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New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops
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Wide Angle Saxon
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No Sir, Orison!
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A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California
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Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present
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What's Wrong with This Picture? 2
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What's Wrong with This Picture? 1
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Remedial Reading Comprehension
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Institutional Quality
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Baroque Slippages
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The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter
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Bardo Follies
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Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc.
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The Evil Faerie
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Studies and Sketches in 8mm
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This Film Will Be Interrupted After 11 Minutes by a Commercial
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Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous?
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Not a Case of Lateral Displacement
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Fleming Faloon
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Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club
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Fleming Faloon Screening
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Are Era
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Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the Restrictive or Non-Restrictive Element
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Two Pieces for the Precarious Life
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A Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage
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