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Owen Land

Birth: 1944 (New Haven, Connecticut)

Official Website: None

Major Works: Dialogues (2009)
Noli Me Tangere/Don’t Touch Me (1983)
The Box Theory (1984)
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? (1979)
Diploteratology (1978)
New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops (1976)
Wide Angle Saxon (1975)
No Sir, Orison (1975)
A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley California (1974)
Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present (1973)
What’s Wrong With This Picture? 2 (1972)
What’s Wrong With This Picture? 1 (1971)
Remedial Reading Comprehension (1970)
Baroque Slippages (1969)
Institutional Quality (1969)
The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter (1968)
Diploteratology (1967)
Bardo Follies (1967)
Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc. (1966)
This Film will be Interrupted After 11 Minutes by a Commercial (1965)
Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous? (1965)
Leopard Skin (1965)
Not a Case of Lateral Displacement (1964)
Fleming Faloon (1963)
Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club (1963)
Are Era (1962)
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)

Notes: Originally born as George Landow, but changed his name to Owen Land sometime in the late ’70s for, as of now, unknown reasons. “Owen Land” is a partial anagram of “George Landow.”

Studied art at Pratt Institute, Art Student’s League of New York and the New York Academy of Art. Earned an MFA in painting at New York Academy of Art.

Is considered to be one of the first “Structuralist” filmmakers before that movement even began. Land eventually rejected structuralism and instead focused his filmmaking on comedy that typically played with language.

Other Resources: IMDB: Filmography
Wikipedia: Bio
Film-makers’ Cooperative: Films for rental
Canyon Cinema: Films for rental
Fred Camper: Links to writing by Camper
Vimeo: Documentary on making of Dialogues

Video: LAFF: Owen Land Q&A Part 1 – June 29, 2009