Directing · b. 1944 · New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Owen Land

Biography

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...

Directed
Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970 2010 Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind 2009 Excerpts from a Work in Progress (Undesirables) 1999 The Box Theory (Ireko Riron) 1984 Noli me tangere 1983 Diploteratology 1978 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? 1977 New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops 1976 Wide Angle Saxon 1975 No Sir, Orison! 1975 A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California 1974 Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present 1973 What's Wrong with This Picture? 2 1972 What's Wrong with This Picture? 1 1971 Remedial Reading Comprehension 1970 Institutional Quality 1969 Baroque Slippages 1969 The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter 1968 Bardo Follies 1967 Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc. 1966 The Evil Faerie 1966 Studies and Sketches in 8mm 1965 This Film Will Be Interrupted After 11 Minutes by a Commercial 1965 Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous? 1965 Not a Case of Lateral Displacement 1964 Fleming Faloon 1963 Fleming Faloon Screening 1963 Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club 1963 Are Era 1962 A Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage 1961 Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the Restrictive or Non-Restrictive Element 1961 Two Pieces for the Precarious Life 1961
Acting
In the Land of Owen 2009 Grand Opera: An Historical Romance Al Rutcurts 1979
Other Credits
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?' Writer 2009 Ball Bearing Cinematography 1968
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