Owen Land
Owen Land (1944 New Haven, Connecticut, USA – 2011 Los Angeles, California, USA). He graduated with a MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art, New York. and studied acting and acting improvisation at Goodman Drama School and Second City, Chicago.
Retrospectives of Land’s films have been held at the Edinburg International Film Festival; the Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, New York; the International Film Festival Rotterdam; Tate Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Bern and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Owen Land
Undesirables (Condensed Version), 1999
video transferred to DVD, b&w, sound
15 min
Installation view KunstWerke Berlin, 2009
Owen Land.
George Landow/Owen Land was one of the key figures in the American ‘structural film’ movement, which was the dominant form of artists’ filmmaking in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His work often parodies avant-garde film itself, occasionally mocking his contemporaries by alluding to their work or even referring to previous films of his own, whilst also imitating the serious approach of film theorists and scholars. Several films question the illusionary nature of cinema through the use of word play and visual ambiguity
Owen Land, Dialogues, 2009, video transferred to DVD, Colour, sound, 2hrs 9min 09 sec
Owen Land, Dialogues, 2009, video transferred to DVD, colour, sound; 2hrs 9min 09 sec, Installation view KunstWerke Berlin, 2009
Owen Land, Undesirables (Condensed Version), 1999, video transferred to DVD, b&w, sound, 15min
Owen Land, A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California, 1974, 16mm, Color, Sound, 12min
Owen Land, 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, 16mm, Color, Sound, 18min
Owen Land, 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, 16mm, Color, Sound, 18min
Owen Land, Remedial Reading Comprehension, 1970, 16 mm, color, sound, 5min
Owen Land, Wide Angle Saxon, 1975, 16mm, Color, Sound, 25min
Owen Land, A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California, 1974, 16mm, Color, Sound, 12min