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Owen Land
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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…
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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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2010
Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970
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2009
In the Land of Owen
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2009
Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind
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- 2009
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1999
Excerpts from a Work in Progress (Undesirables)
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1984
The Box Theory (Ireko Riron)
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1983
Noli me tangere
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1979
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
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1978
Diploteratology
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- 1977
- 1976
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1975
Wide Angle Saxon
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1975
No Sir, Orison!
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- 1974
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1973
Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present
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1972
What's Wrong with This Picture? 2
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1971
What's Wrong with This Picture? 1
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- 1970
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1969
Institutional Quality
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1969
Baroque Slippages
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1968
The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter
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1968
Ball Bearing
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1967
Bardo Follies
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- 1966
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1966
The Evil Faerie
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- 1965
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1965
Studies and Sketches in 8mm
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1965
Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous?
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1964
Not a Case of Lateral Displacement
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1963
Fleming Faloon
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1963
Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club
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1963
Fleming Faloon Screening
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1962
Are Era
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- 1961
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1961
A Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage
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1961
Two Pieces for the Precarious Life
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The Leopard Skin
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