Remedial Reading Comprehension
Landow rejects the dream imagery of the historical trance film for the self-referential present, using macrobiotics, the language of advertising...
See moreFilm in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc.
Film in Which There Appear... is a six-minute loop of the double-printed image of a "China girl" or "Shirley card", her image off-center, making...
See moreOn 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?'
The Land Camera Collective presents a (nearly) shot-by-shot remake of the Owen Land 1977 classic experimental film 'On The Marriage Broker Joke as...
See moreThe Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter
Two artists create grotesque characters; Two-dimensional drawings which somehow have a life of their own, that exist in the same space as real...
See moreThank You Jesus for the Eternal Present
A rapturous audio-visual mix that “deliberately seeks a hidden order in randomness.” The film combines the face of a woman in ecstatic...
See moreFaulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the Restrictive or Non-Restrictive Element
“I made several films while still in high school, one of which was called Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the Participle...
See moreOn 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?
“Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation, displacement, representation by opposites, punning and...
See moreThe Evil Faerie
Following a series of title cards, a man in sunglasses briefly flutters his hands like fairy. Owen Land states that this film was not made by...
See moreBall Bearing
Early 16mm film by Meredith Monk also presented as an installation piece to play continuously forward and backward for an unrestricted time period.
See moreInstitutional Quality
Constructed around a found soundtrack in which a strict female voice delivers a test of perception and comprehension, Institutional Quality’s sound...
See moreNew Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops
A reworking of an earlier film, Institutional Quality, in which the same test was given. In the earlier film, the person taking the test was not...
See moreDialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind
Dialogues is Land's last film: A chaotic, self-reflexive experimental narrative about many, many things-- namely Land himself. A caustic...
See moreWide Angle Saxon
An interpretation of The Confessions of Saint Augustine featuring an ordinary middle-aged man who undergoes a conversion experience whilst watching...
See moreRichard Kraft at the Playboy Club
“There is a TV screen superimposed over his face, his face being the screen and the screen being the image.The image of a TV screen can be an image...
See moreFleming Faloon
In his first 16mm film, Landow proposes that if we accept the reality offered to us by the illusion of depth on the flat plane of the screen, we...
See moreA Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California
A radical Christian group's lecture tour of US colleges was filmed in the cinema verité tradition, with hand held camera, sync and wild sound. To...
See moreFleming Faloon Screening
“Fleming Faloon Screening does not document filming of Fleming Faloon. It is only a screening, contrasting the movie images with the interior of...
See moreThis Film will be Interrupted after 11 Minutes by a Commercial
16mm film loop plus separate 16mm film reel. “You could mention that the ‘cigar commercial’ was for Dutch Masters – surely this was significant –...
See moreBardo Follies
A shot of a Southern Belle waving to a group of tourists on a pleasure boat ride is looped, multiplied and then melted, creating psychedelic...
See moreDiploteratology
A revision of Bardo Follies, Diploteratology suggests that “death (destruction of the original image) is not an end but merely the next stage.”...
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