Owen Land Movies

  • 1963
    Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club

    Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club

    Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club

    01963HD

    “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...

    Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club
  • 1970
    The Leopard Skin

    The Leopard Skin

    The Leopard Skin

    01970HD

    “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...

    The Leopard Skin
  • 1965
    Studies and Sketches in 8mm

    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...

    Studies and Sketches in 8mm
  • 1975
    Wide Angle Saxon

    Wide Angle Saxon

    Wide Angle Saxon

    4.21975HD

    An interpretation of The Confessions of Saint Augustine featuring an ordinary middle-aged man who undergoes a conversion experience whilst watching...

    Wide Angle Saxon
  • 1968
    Ball Bearing

    Ball Bearing

    Ball Bearing

    01968HD

    Early 16mm film by Meredith Monk also presented as an installation piece to play continuously forward and backward for an unrestricted time period.

    Ball Bearing
  • 1967
    Bardo Follies

    Bardo Follies

    Bardo Follies

    4.51967HD

    A shot of a Southern Belle waving to a group of tourists on a pleasure boat ride is looped, multiplied and then melted, creating psychedelic abstract...

    Bardo Follies
  • 1965
    Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous?

    Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous?

    Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous?

    01965HD

    “Both sides are the same time (well,almost). It’s really simultaneous – practically. Except at the end a car burns and that is the...

    Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous?
  • 1983
    Noli me tangere

    Noli me tangere

    Noli me tangere

    01983HD

    “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...

    Noli me tangere
  • 1966
    Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc.

    Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc.

    Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc.

    41966HD

    Film in Which There Appear... is a six-minute loop of the double-printed image of a "China girl" or "Shirley card", her image off-center, making...

    Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc.
  • 1965
    This Film will be Interrupted after 11 Minutes by a Commercial

    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...

    This Film will be Interrupted after 11 Minutes by a Commercial
  • 1962
    Are Era

    Are Era

    Are Era

    01962HD

    “Are Era was filmed off of television sets, of TV and news announcers, similar somewhat to Fleming Faloon.” (Owen Land, interviewed by...

    Are Era
  • 1963
    Fleming Faloon

    Fleming Faloon

    Fleming Faloon

    41963HD

    In his first 16mm film, Landow proposes that if we accept the reality offered to us by the illusion of depth on the flat plane of the screen, we can...

    Fleming Faloon
  • 1975
    No Sir, Orison!

    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...

    No Sir, Orison!
  • 1964
    Not a Case of Lateral Displacement

    Not a Case of Lateral Displacement

    Not a Case of Lateral Displacement

    01964HD

    “The sore – which is not static, but a series of exposures of a healing infection – is called Not a Case of Lateral Displacement....

    Not a Case of Lateral Displacement
  • 1961
    A Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage

    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...

    A Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage
  • 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

    A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California

    31974HD

    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....

    A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California