About

Known credits:
40
Birthday:
1944-01-01
Place of birth:
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Owen Land

Overview

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.

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Acting
2009 In the Land of Owen Actor N/A
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1978 Grand Opera: An Historical Romance Actor Al Rutcurts 59
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1970 Remedial Reading Comprehension Actor 58
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Directing
2010 Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970 Directing Director N/A
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2009 Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind Directing Director N/A
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1999 Excerpts from a Work in Progress (Undesirables) Directing Director N/A
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1984 The Box Theory (Ireko Riron) Directing Director N/A
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1983 Noli me tangere Directing Director N/A
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1978 Diploteratology Directing Director 59
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1977 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? Directing Director 58
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1976 New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops Directing Director 59
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1975 Wide Angle Saxon Directing Director 59
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1975 No Sir, Orison! Directing Director N/A
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1974 A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California Directing Director 59
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1973 Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present Directing Director 58
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1972 What's Wrong with This Picture? 2 Directing Director N/A
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1971 What's Wrong with This Picture? 1 Directing Director N/A
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1970 Remedial Reading Comprehension Directing Director 58
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1969 Institutional Quality Directing Director 59
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1969 Baroque Slippages Directing Director N/A
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1968 The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter Directing Director 58
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1967 Bardo Follies Directing Director 58
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1966 Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc. Directing Director 58
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1966 The Evil Faerie Directing Director 59
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1965 Studies and Sketches in 8mm Directing Director N/A
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1965 This Film will be Interrupted after 11 Minutes by a Commercial Directing Director N/A
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1965 Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous? Directing Director N/A
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1964 Not a Case of Lateral Displacement Directing Director N/A
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1963 Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club Directing Director N/A
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1963 Fleming Faloon Screening Directing Director N/A
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1963 Fleming Faloon Directing Director 59
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1962 Are Era Directing Director N/A
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1961 Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the Restrictive or Non-Restrictive Element Directing Director N/A
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1961 Two Pieces for the Precarious Life Directing Director N/A
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1961 A Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage Directing Director N/A
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The Leopard Skin Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2009 Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind Writing Writer N/A
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2009 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?' Writing Writer 59
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Production
2009 Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind Production Executive Producer N/A
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Crew
1968 Ball Bearing Crew Cinematography N/A
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