Owen Land

Owen Land

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.

  • Title: Owen Land
  • Popularity: 0.781
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1944-01-01
  • Place of Birth: New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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  • Also Known As: George Landow, Apollo Jize, Orphan Morphan
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Owen Land Movies

  • 2009
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    In the Land of Owen

    In the Land of Owen

    1 2009 HD

    A short documentary about notorious filmmaker Owen Land (aka George Landow) and his most recent film Dialogues (2009). Interviews with cast and crew,...

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  • 1970
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    Remedial Reading Comprehension

    Remedial Reading Comprehension

    4.2 1970 HD

    Landow rejects the dream imagery of the historical trance film for the self-referential present, using macrobiotics, the language of advertising, and...

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  • 1978
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    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

    8 1978 HD

    Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of...

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  • 2010
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    Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970

    Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970

    1 2010 HD

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

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

    4 1966 HD

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  • 1977
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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?

    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?

    4.9 1977 HD

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  • 1970
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    Remedial Reading Comprehension

    Remedial Reading Comprehension

    4.2 1970 HD

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  • 1976
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    New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops

    New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops

    6.3 1976 HD

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  • 1968
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    The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter

    The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter

    4.8 1968 HD

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  • 1963
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    Fleming Faloon

    Fleming Faloon

    4 1963 HD

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  • 1967
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    Bardo Follies

    Bardo Follies

    4.5 1967 HD

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  • 1973
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    Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present

    Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present

    4 1973 HD

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  • 1969
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    Institutional Quality

    Institutional Quality

    6 1969 HD

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  • 1971
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    What's Wrong with This Picture? 1

    What's Wrong with This Picture? 1

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1975
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    Wide Angle Saxon

    Wide Angle Saxon

    4.2 1975 HD

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  • 1972
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    What's Wrong with This Picture? 2

    What's Wrong with This Picture? 2

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1966
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    The Evil Faerie

    The Evil Faerie

    5.2 1966 HD

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  • 1999
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    Excerpts from a Work in Progress (Undesirables)

    Excerpts from a Work in Progress (Undesirables)

    1 1999 HD

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  • 1975
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    No Sir, Orison!

    No Sir, Orison!

    1 1975 HD

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  • 1974
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    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

    3 1974 HD

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  • 1968
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    Ball Bearing

    Ball Bearing

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1983
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    Noli me tangere

    Noli me tangere

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1984
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    The Box Theory (Ireko Riron)

    The Box Theory (Ireko Riron)

    1 1984 HD

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  • 2009
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    Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind

    Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind

    1 2009 HD

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  • 1978
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    Diploteratology

    Diploteratology

    6 1978 HD

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  • 2009
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    On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Owen Land...in the Film '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?'

    On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Owen Land...in the Film '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?'

    10 2009 HD

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  • 2009
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    Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind

    Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind

    1 2009 HD

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  • 2009
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    Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind

    Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind

    1 2009 HD

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  • 1963
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    Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club

    Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1961
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    Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the Restrictive or Non-Restrictive Element

    Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the Restrictive or Non-Restrictive Element

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Leopard Skin

    The Leopard Skin

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1965
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    Studies and Sketches in 8mm

    Studies and Sketches in 8mm

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1964
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    Not a Case of Lateral Displacement

    Not a Case of Lateral Displacement

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1961
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    Two Pieces for the Precarious Life

    Two Pieces for the Precarious Life

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1962
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    Are Era

    Are Era

    1 1962 HD

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  • 1965
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    This Film will be Interrupted after 11 Minutes by a Commercial

    This Film will be Interrupted after 11 Minutes by a Commercial

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1969
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    Baroque Slippages

    Baroque Slippages

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1961
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    A Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage

    A Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1963
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    Fleming Faloon Screening

    Fleming Faloon Screening

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1965
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    Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous?

    Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous?

    1 1965 HD

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