George Landow (filmmaker) - Filmography

Filmography

Year Title Format Length Notes
1961 Two Pieces for the Precarious Life 16mm
1961 Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the Restrictive or Non-Restrictive Element 16mm
1961 A Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage 16mm
1962 Are Era 16mm
1963 Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club 8mm
1963 Fleming Faloon Screening 8mm
1963-4 Fleming Faloon 16mm 7 minutes Color
1964 Not a Case of Lateral Displacement 8mm
1965 Leopard Skin 16mm
1965 Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous? 8mm
1965 This Film will be Interrupted after 11 Minutes by a Commercial 16mm
1966 Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc. 16mm 6 minutes Color; silent
1967 Bardo Follies 16mm 20 minutes Color; silent
1968 The Film that Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter 16mm 9 minutes B/w
1969 Baroque Slippages 16mm
1969 Institutional Quality 16mm 5 minutes Color
1970 Remedial Reading Comprehension 16mm 5 minutes Color
1971 What’s Wrong With This Picture 1 16mm 5 minutes B/w and color; silent
1972 What’s Wrong With This Picture 2 16mm 7 minutes B/w and color; silent
1973 Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present 16mm 6 minutes B/w and color
1974 A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley California 16mm 12 minutes Color
1975 No Sir, Orison! 16mm 3 minutes Color
1975 Wide Angle Saxon 16mm 22 minutes Color
1976 New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops 16mm 10 minutes Color
1978 Diploteratology 16mm 7 minutes Color
1977-9 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? 16mm 18 minutes Color
1983 Noli Me Tangere/Don't Touch Me Video
1984 The Box Theory Video
1999 Undesirables (Condensed Version) 16mm/Video
2009 Dialogues, or A Waist Is A Terrible Thing To Mind Video

Dialogues is informed by Owen Land's study of folklore, myth, and history, and the theology of all major religions, including Gnosticism and Kabbala. It ironically uses the form of the Platonic dialogue to explore the themes of reincarnation, art criticism, and Tantra. It includes pastiches of badly-written well-known Hollywood films, as well as the films of Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Jim McBride, and others. Dialogues was produced between January 2006 and August 2009 by Eric Michael Kochmer, Benjamin E. Pitts, and Skye Le-fever.

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