George Landow (1944 – June 8, 2011), also known as Owen Land, was a painter, writer, photographer, and experimental filmmaker. He has also worked under the pen names Orphan Morphan and Apollo Jize.
According to film historian Mark Webber, Land made some of his first 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 word play, and have been described by Webber as having humor & wit that separates his films from the "boring" world of avant-garde cinema.
His work is also known to parody the experimental & "structural film" movement, as featured in his 1975 film Wide Angle Saxon. His style of filmmaking is also inspired by Bertolt Brecht, educational films, advertising, and television, and employs devices used by such in his films to destroy any sense of "reality", as exhibited in What's Wrong With this Picture 1 and Remedial Reading Comprehension.
Shortly after the release of his film On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud... (1977), Landow rearranged his name to Owen Land. It is an anagram of "Landow N.E." Land served as the model for Robert Heinlein's character Jubal Harshaw, unbeknownst to Heinlein.
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Watch Now"The soundtrack was Baroque harpsichord music composed by Georg Böhm.It was shown privately, and at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque on Wooster Street.The film was made, but never put into distribution. ...
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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 visible the sprocket holes and edge lettering on the film. According to Land, within the loop, "no development ...
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Watch Now"Both sides are the same time (well,almost). It's really simultaneous – practically. Except at the end a car burns and that is the same car we have been looking at on the other track,already a burnt out wreck around which kids dance.All this was taking p ...
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Watch Now"The sore – which is not static, but a series of exposures of a healing infection – is called Not a Case of Lateral Displacement. It is not a 'medical illustration' but an actual infection. ...
Watch NowIn 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 then assign reality to anything at will. A cinematic equivalent of the illusionistic portraiture of the Fl ...
Watch Now"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 image in a movie. On television, the movie is the television image.This seems logical." (George Landow, letter to ...
Watch Now"Fleming Faloon Screening does not document filming of Fleming Faloon. It is only a screening, contrasting the movie images with the interior of the room.The people in the room are 'once removed' from us.The person in the movie is two (and three) times rem ...
Watch Now"They were more or less subjective camera films.The camera was my eye, involved in simple daily sorts of activities. One part was colour and one part was black and white." (Lost? ...
Watch Now"I made several films while still in high school, one of which was called Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the Participle Phrase* (or something like that) and was about grammar. More specifically, it compared three commonly made gra ...
Watch Now"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 when the foetus can become either male or female, so it's a hermaphroditic stage. Somehow that had something to d ...
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A short documentary about notorious filmmaker Owen Land (aka George Landow) and his most recent film Dialogues (2009). Interviews with cast and crew, plus never-before-seen footage from the movie. ...
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