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George Landow, Apollo Jize, Orphan Morphan
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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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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1944-01-01
- event Death Date 2011-06-08
- school Known for: Directing
- star Popularity: 2.5
- info Birth Place New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Owen Land
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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?
1977-01-01
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In the Land of Owen
2009-12-08
4.2
Remedial Reading Comprehension
1970-01-01
8
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
1978-01-01
movie_edit Directing
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Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970
2010-07-19
8
Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc.
1966-11-11
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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?
1977-01-01
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Remedial Reading Comprehension
1970-01-01
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New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops
1976-06-07
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Fleming Faloon
1963-01-01
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The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter
1968-05-30
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Bardo Follies
1967-05-02
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Institutional Quality
1969-09-27
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Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present
1973-01-01
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What's Wrong with This Picture? 1
1971-01-01
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Wide Angle Saxon
1975-01-01
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What's Wrong with This Picture? 2
1972-01-01
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The Evil Faerie
1966-01-02
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Excerpts from a Work in Progress (Undesirables)
1999-09-16
8
No Sir, Orison!
1975-01-01
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A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California
1974-01-01
8
Ball Bearing
1968-01-01
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Noli me tangere
1983-05-24
8
The Box Theory (Ireko Riron)
1984-06-05
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Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind
2009-02-16
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Diploteratology
1978-07-06
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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?'
2009-01-01
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Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind
2009-02-16
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Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind
2009-02-16
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Two Pieces for the Precarious Life
1961-01-01
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Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the Restrictive or Non-Restrictive Element
1961-01-01
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A Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage
1961-01-01
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Are Era
1962-01-01
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Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club
1963-01-01
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Fleming Faloon Screening
1963-01-01
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Not a Case of Lateral Displacement
1964-01-01
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The Leopard Skin
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Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous?
1965-01-01
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Studies and Sketches in 8mm
1965-01-01
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This Film will be Interrupted after 11 Minutes by a Commercial
1965-01-01
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Baroque Slippages
1969-01-01