The 16mm films of Owen Land shown chronologically over two days, with work by LA artists Deirdre O'Dwyer, Pat O'Neill, and Margo Victor. September 6 and 7, at Human Resources gallery in Los Angeles.
Screening:
Owen Land
Film in Which There Appear Sprocket Holes, Edge Lettering, Dirt Particles, etc, 1966
Diploteratology: Bardo Follies, 1967
The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter, 1968
Remedial Reading Comprehension, 1970
What's Wrong With This Picture?, 1972
Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present, 1973
A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California, 1974
No Sir, Orison!, 1975
Wide Angle Saxon, 1975
New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops, 1976
On The Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation of the Unconscious, Or Can the Avant-Garde Artist be Wholed?, 1979
Deirdre O'Dwyer
The Rule of 3 (version 2), 2014
Pat O'Neill
Saugus Series, 1974
Margo Victor
Astronauts, 2014
Film curator Mark Webber on Owen Land: "Owen Land (formerly known as George Landow) was one of the most original American filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s. His works fused an intellectual sense of reason with the irreverent wit that distances them from the supposedly ‘boring’ world of avant-garde film. His early materialist works anticipated Structural Film, the definition of which provoked his rejection of film theory and convention. Having explored the physical qualities of the celluloid strip, his attention turned to the spectator in a series of ‘literal’ films that question the illusionary nature of cinema through the use of elaborate wordplay and visual ambiguity."