Owen Land
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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DirectingBirthday
January 1, 1944Deathday
June 8, 2011Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
39Place of birth
New Haven, Connecticut, USAAlso known as
George Landow, Apollo Jize, Orphan MorphanCast credits
Crew credits
Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970
DirectorFilm in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc.
DirectorOn 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?
DirectorRemedial Reading Comprehension
DirectorBardo Follies
DirectorThe Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter
DirectorWhat's Wrong with This Picture? 1
DirectorWhat's Wrong with This Picture? 2
DirectorWide Angle Saxon
DirectorExcerpts from a Work in Progress (Undesirables)
DirectorA Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California
DirectorNo Sir, Orison!
DirectorNoli me tangere
DirectorThe Box Theory (Ireko Riron)
DirectorDialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind
Director, Writer, Executive Producer