Bob Cowan

Monster Invaders from Space (2018)

Monsters from space attack earth, two scientists and a couple of teenagers try to stop the extraterrestrial invaders. ...

Star Wars: Droids - Treasure of the Hidden Planet (2004)

Mungo Baobab and his droids, Threepio and Artoo, are trailing the Rainbow comets of Manda in search of the fabled Roon system. Before they get there, they make an enemy out of the greedy Governor Koong. On Roon, they meet Auren Yomm and join her Umbo racin ...

Seadrift (1976)

Seadrift is based on a story The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft, and was shot partially in Marblehead Mass. Each section represents a synthesis of the various aspects and moods of the story. The sum total of the fragments expresses the atmosphere ...

Magicman (1975)

A ritualistic mood piece with colour-rich images ...

‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1974)

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image. ...

Portrait of Ramona (1971)

This movie was made mostly in Brooklyn during some very hot and empty evenings. Since the evenings were so empty, Jane Elford, the star, urged me to get started making another movie (we had completed PAGAN RHAPSODY the year before). I said "okay," and laun ...

Secks (1970)

"...in a film abounding with humor and fertile with suggested points of departure for at least half a dozen more pictures, clearly deserves the encouragement that a top award can give. ...

Pagan Rhapsody (1970)

Edgar, an aristocrat, commissions Camillo to write a play based on an affair he had ten years ago with the Countess del Monaco. But Edgar first has to find a suitable actress to play the Countess – his search will lead to his own death. ...

Chronicles (1969)

Mike Kuchar'ss lyrical portrait of everyday life, from making art to making love, all as the Vietnam War rages. ...

The Sky Socialist (1968)

Ken Jacobs's most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of a now vanished neighborhood beneath the Brooklyn Bridge. ...

Encyclopedia of the Blessed (1968)

" ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BLESSED culminates my involvement with artist Red Grooms and Mimi Gross. It is a diary of our work as we head for the Pacific Ocean in a suicidal plunge for theatrical infamy. The film traces the construction of two craven images mad ...

Color Me Shameless (1967)

Made when I was a bit depressed which is nothing new,. Bob Cowan happened to be depressed as well and so we had a wonderful time working together. One of the actresses was separated from her husband at this time and the movie solidifies into concrete the r ...

The Craven Sluck (1967)

A desperate, married woman meets a mysterious man who she blatantly desires. Through some twists and turns, things do not go over as well as she seems to wish. ...

The Eye Creatures (1967)

A teenager and his girlfriend must save the world from "eye" aliens after their attempts to convince authorities of an invasion fall on deaf ears. ...

Mosholu Holiday (1967)

A special guest appearance by Canadian TV star Bill Ronald along with the massive presence of "Mrs. Bronx" herself, Frances Leibowitz, and her girlfriend Iris, make this film a must-see for travel enthusiasts... ...

The Secret of Wendel Samson (1966)

A young man's struggle with his sexuality overtakes his life, driving him deep into his subconscious where guilt and fears of physicality chase him still further. Cornered by an intangible terror, he realises he must either break out or break down. ...

Green Desire (1966)

A youth wanders the landscape of grass and sky in search of puzzling impulses. ...

Sins of the Fleshapoids (1965)

One million years in the future, the human survivors of a nuclear war are served by robots called "fleshapoids." One day, fleshapoid Xar runs wild, kills its mistress and seeks its mate, a servant of wicked Prince Gianbeno. ...

Born of the Wind (1964)

A tender and realistic story of a scientist who falls in love with a mummy he has restored to life. ...

Lust for Ecstasy (1964)

"LUST FOR ECSTASY is my most ambitious attempt since my last film…. I wrote many of the pungent scenes on the D train, and when I arrived on the set I ripped them up and let my emotional whims make chopped meat out of the performances and the story…. Y ...

Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof (1963)

"It glows with the embers of desire! It smokes with the revelation of men and women longing for robust temptations that will make them sizzle into maturity with a furnace-blast of unrestrained animalism. A film for young and old to enjoy. ...

Night of the Bomb (1962)

The film combines teenage lust and deranged delinquency to create a cautionary tale for the ages. ...

The Slasher (1958)

An insane, deformed killer stalks the grounds of a resort house, bringing sudden violence to those of easy virtue and godlessness. ...

Portrait #2: Judy Fyve (1983)

"Just what it says." –B. C. ...

10 Women 10 (1979)

The Shadow Glass (1976)

The Shadow Glass is roughly based on Ewers' 'Student of Prague'. It concerns a young man who, feeling incapable of surmounting the harsh realities of love and life, sends his reflection cut to procure and win for him the object of his desire. Rather than b ...

Magicman (1975)

A ritualistic mood piece with colour-rich images ...

100 Chinese Opera Masks (1975)

"Just what it says." –B. C. ...

Earth Song (1970)

A dance-music-processional homage to the life force, a unification of nature and man, shot in San Francisco, Yosemite and New Mexico; made on a grant from the Canada Council. –B. C. ...

Alone (1969)

"From the way the film begins, and the way the outside images are used, it is clear that they are not intended to be entirely specific to the girl; not, say, to represent her 'thoughts.' The objects and images are rather metaphors–i. e., the pale, barren ...

Rockflow (1968)

"Parts of this film were shot for a mixed media show at the 'Electric Circus' in New York, and were later expanded and re-edited into the present form. A semi-documentary that gradually expands to a pure sight and sound experience. Music by Chambers Brothe ...

Jangleflex (1968)

An abstract, rhythmically cut film with various images of women, some of whom are dancers. The sound track, which is semi-electronic, is composed and played by Cowan. –B. C. ...

Remembrance and Goodbye (1968)

"A personal melancholia concerning the death of my mother with my own personal memoir images of school, home, lost first love and fears of my own obliteration. Made on a grant from the Canada Council." –B. C. ...

Soul Freeze (1967)

"SOUL FREEZE is Cowan's masterpiece to date, and one of the most consciously anguished of films. It is centered around a man who is being 'tempted' by female sexuality. ...

Academy Luncheon (1967)

Moddle Toddle (1967)

"A tribute to overwhelming nature, this film is rich in both color and sound. A combination of original footage and images from children's books, text books, etc."/ "Why is it that just when you start getting into something you really like, that woman come ...

The Secret of Wendel Samson (1966)

A young man's struggle with his sexuality overtakes his life, driving him deep into his subconscious where guilt and fears of physicality chase him still further. Cornered by an intangible terror, he realises he must either break out or break down. ...

River Windows (1966)

"A film counterpointing the hard reality of the present with the fantastic actuality or imagining of the idyllic past. This is best realized in the halting transition from the journey through time back to the watery one that evoked. ...

Evocation (1965)

"A tribute to overwhelming nature, this film is rich in both color and sound. A combination of original footage and images from children's books, text books, etc." –B. C. ...

Solo (1965)

Child (1962)