Owen Land

Owen LAND (1944, New Haven, Massachussettes) was born as George Landow. He made his first films in high school. He was educated in drawing, painting and sculpting for years by teachers who were strongly influenced by the French artist Jean Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) - known for his accurate historical representation of daily life in ancient Rome. Land's films from the 1960s and 1970s are commonly seen as part of the most important and penetrating work from that episode.

Filmography

(all short) Two Pieces for the Precarious Life (1961), Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the Restrictive or Non-Restrictive Element (1961), A Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage (1961), Are Era (1962), Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club (1963), Fleming Faloon (1963-64), Fleming Faloon Screening (1963), Not a Case of Lateral Displacement (1964), The Leopard Skin (1965), Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous? (1965), This Film will be Interrupted after 11 Minutes by a Commercial (1965), Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc. (1965-66), Bardo Follies (1967), The Film that Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter (1968), Institutional Quality (1969), Remedial Reading Comprehension (1970), What's Wrong With This Picture? 1 (1971), What's Wrong With This Picture? 2 (1972), Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present (1973), A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California (1974), "No Sir, Orison!" (1975), Wide Angle Saxon (1975), New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops (1976), 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? (1977-79), Noli Me Tangere (1984, video), The Box Theory (1984, video), Work-In-Progress (1999)