Owen Land
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Owen Land at IFFR
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What’s Wrong With This Picture? 2
As Land and his students were testing a new video camera, an elderly man began to talk to them about new technology. This impromptu conversation fo
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What’s Wrong With This Picture? 1
A found, utilitarian object – the overtly moralising educational film How To Be a Good Citizen – is elevated to the status of ‘ar
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Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc.
This film takes the view that certain defining characteristics of the medium, such as those mentioned in the title, are worthy subjects in their ow
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New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a .
The IQ test soundtrack is re-used in an entirely new work that is concerned more with the effects on the examinee, who enters a Chinese box of impo
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On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and its Relation to
‘Two pandas, who exist only by textual error, run a shell game for the viewer in an environment with false perspectives. They posit the exist
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Wide Angle Saxon
An interpretation of The Confessions of Saint Augustine, featuring an ordinary middle-aged man who undergoes a conversion experience while watching
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Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present
A rapturous audiovisual mix that `deliberately seeks a hidden order in randomness.’ The film combines the face of a woman in ecstatic, contem
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A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front
A radical Christian group’s lecture tour of US colleges was filmed in the cinema vérité style, with hand-held camera, sync and wild sound. To
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Fleming Faloon
A cinematic equivalent to the illusionistis portraiture of the Flemish painters. In his first 16mm film, Land proposes that if we accept the realit
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“No Sir, Orison!”
After singing a vivacious song of love in the aisle of a supermarket, the performer kneels down to ask forgiveness for those involved in the commer