Owen Land

Directing·Jan 1, 1944·New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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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.

Film	Credit
Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-19702010 · Director	Director
In the Land of Owen2009 · Actor	Actor
Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind2009 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
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?'2009 · Writer	Writer
Excerpts from a Work in Progress (Undesirables)1999 · Director	Director
The Box Theory (Ireko Riron)1984 · Director	Director
Noli me tangere1983 · Director	Director
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance1979 · Al Rutcurts	Al Rutcurts
Diploteratology1978 · Director	Director
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 · Director	Director
New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops1976 · Director	Director
Wide Angle Saxon1975 · Director	Director
No Sir, Orison!1975 · Director	Director
A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California1974 · Director	Director
Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present1973 · Director	Director
What's Wrong with This Picture? 21972 · Director	Director
What's Wrong with This Picture? 11971 · Director	Director
Remedial Reading Comprehension1970 · Actor, Director	Actor, Director
IInstitutional Quality1969 · Director	Director
BBaroque Slippages1969 · Director	Director
The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter1968 · Director	Director
Bardo Follies1967 · Director	Director
Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc.1966 · Director	Director
The Evil Faerie1966 · Director	Director
AAdjacent Yes, But Simultaneous?1965 · Director	Director
SStudies and Sketches in 8mm1965 · Director	Director
This Film Will Be Interrupted After 11 Minutes by a Commercial1965 · Director	Director
NNot a Case of Lateral Displacement1964 · Director	Director
FFleming Faloon1963 · Director	Director
RRichard Kraft at the Playboy Club1963 · Director	Director
FFleming Faloon Screening1963 · Director	Director
AAre Era1962 · Director	Director
TTwo Pieces for the Precarious Life1961 · Director	Director
FFaulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the Restrictive or Non-Restrictive Element1961 · Director	Director
AA Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage1961 · Director	Director
TThe Leopard SkinDirector	Director