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20 & 27 March 2005 | Leeds
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25 & 26 February 2005 | Leeds
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21 January 2005 | PureScreen, Salford
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5 March 2004 | Leeds
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22 May 2003 | Leeds
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Reverence:
The films of Owen Land (formerly know as George Landow)
LUX project, produced in association
with Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna and supported by Arts
Council England. Curated by Mark Webber
25 & 26 February 2005 (2 programmes)
| Leeds Central Library, Municipal Buildings, Calverley Street,
Leeds, LS1 3AB | 7-8.15 pm | £4.50/3.50 per screening;
£8/6 two screenings; purchase
tickets online
Still from 16mm film "No Sir, Orison" (1975)
by Owen Land (formerly known as George Landow).
© Owen Land & Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna.
"Owen Land, formerly known as George Landow, was one of the
most original and celebrated American filmmakers of the 1960s and
1970s. The works he made during this period fused an intellectual
sense of reason with the irreverent wit that distances them from
the supposedly ‘boring’ world of avant-garde cinema.
His early materialist works anticipated Structural Film, the definition
of which provoked his rejection of film theory and convention. Having
first explored the physical qualities of the celluloid strip itself
in Film in which there appear ... and Bardo Follies,
his attention turned to the spectator in a series of ‘literal’
films that question the illusionary nature of cinema through the
use of word play and optical ambiguity.
His two most complex films are Wide Angle Saxon, in which
a man has a spiritual revelation during an avant-garde screening
at the Walker Art Center, and On the Marriage Broker Joke,
whose disparate cast of characters include two pandas discussing,
and making, an avant-garde film about the marketing of Japanese
salted plums. Both are models of the unconscious process, with loose
narratives that bring together a variety elements through visual
and verbal humour.
Land constructs ‘facades’ of reality, often directly
addressing the viewer using the language of television, advertising
or educational films, and by featuring characters that are often
the antithesis of those we might expect to see, such as podgy middle
aged men and religious fanatics. He sometimes parodies experimental
film itself, by mimicking his contemporaries and mocking the solemn
approach of theorists and scholars.
Films like Remedial Reading Comprehension propose an alternative
logic for a medium that has become over theorised and manipulated.
Later works, beginning with Thank You Jesus for the Eternal
Present and A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour, draw
upon the filmmaker’s experiences with Christianity, but are
far from evangelistic.
His films contain numerous cross-references to the art and culture
of our time, giving them a relevance and vitality beyond the hermetic
avant-garde. Owen Land has exposed the material of cinema and deconstructed
its process and effect, while covering the ‘big topics’
of religion, psychoanalysis, commerce and pandas making avant-garde
movies." — Mark Webber
Films
Programme One (75 mins): Friday 25 February
Remedial Reading Comprehension, 1970, 5 min
Fleming Faloon, 1963-64, 7 min
Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt
Particles, Etc., 1965-66, 4 min
Bardo Follies, 1967-76, 20 min
What's Wrong With This Picture? 1, 1971, 5 min
What1s Wrong With This Picture? 2, 1972, 7 min
Institutional Quality, 1969, 5 min
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, 18 min
Programme Two (75 mins): Saturday 26 February
The Film that Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter,
1968, 9 min
Diploteratology, 1967-78, 7 min
"No Sir, Orison!", 1975, 3 min
Wide Angle Saxon, 1975, 22 min
Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present, 1973, 6 min
A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World
Liberation Front of Berkeley, California, 1974, 12 min
New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids
and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops, 1976, 10 min
Two Films by Owen Land
Two Films by Owen Land features
the illustrated scripts to the films Wide Angle Saxon and
On the Marriage Broker Joke, complete with detailed footnotes
that untangle their elaborate web of references. Reaching far beyond
the two films alluded to in the title, it also includes a new interview,
annotated filmography and recent essays by the artist.
Two Films by Owen Land, Edited by Mark Webber, published
by LUX and Östereichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna, will be available
to purchase at the screenings, price £5.
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