From: Bruce Posner (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Sep 13 2005 - 05:46:13 PDT
Congratuations, Mark. Good job. My regards to OL.
B
>please find below details of the US Tour of the Owen Land / George Landow
>retrospective. there are two programmes that will be screened at each of the
>venues. at the whitney museum, WIDE ANGLE SAXON and ON THE MARRIAGE BROKER
>JOKE will be screened continuously on dvd, with the two film programmes
>showing each weekend. there will be a special event on 12 november, more
>details to follow. there may be more tour dates to follow early in the new
>year - please email me if you might be interested to show these programmes.
>the book TWO FILMS BY OWEN LAND is now also available in the US, distributed
>by Columbia University Press, priced $15.
>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/095485/0954856910.HTM
>
>mark webber
>
>...
>
>REVERENCE: THE FILMS OF OWEN LAND (FORMERLY KNOWN AS GEORGE LANDOW)
>
> "My approach is to throw in everything but the kitch in sync."
> (Owen Land, 1997)
>
>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.
>The characters in Land's films are often the antithesis of those we might
>expect to see, such as podgy middle aged men and radical Christians. He
>sometimes parodies experimental film itself, by mimicking his contemporaries
>and mocking the solemn approach of its scholars.
>
>Land constructs 'facades' of reality, often directly addressing the viewer
>using the language of television, advertising or educational films, and
>proposes an alternative logic for a medium that has become over theorised
>and manipulated. He has exposed the material of film and deconstructed the
>process and the effect, while covering the 'big topics' of religion,
>psychoanalysis, commerce and pandas making avant-garde movies.
>
>(Mark Webber)
>
>REVERENCE: THE FILMS OF OWEN LAND (FORMERLY KNOWN AS GEORGE LANDOW) is a LUX
>project, produced in association with Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna
>and curated by Mark Webber. The films of Owen Land have been preserved by
>Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna, in co-operation with Anthology Film
>Archives, New York, Haghefilm, Amsterdam, and Listo-Film, Vienna.
>
>TWO FILMS BY OWEN LAND, a 136 page illustrated book, will be published in
>January 2005. It features the illustrated scripts to the films Wide Angle
>Saxon and On the Marriage Broker Joke, complete with detailed footnotes
>which 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. Edited by Mark
>Webber. Published by LUX and Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna. ISBN
>0-954856-91-0.
>
>www.lux.org.uk/owenland
>
>REVERENCE: US TOUR DATES 2005
>
>13 & 20 September 2005
>Union Theatre, University of Wisconsin www.aux.uwm.edu/uniontheatre
>
>1 & 8 October 2005
>Chicago Filmmakers www.chicagofilmmakers.org
>
>6 & 20 October 2005
>Wexner Centre, Columbus www.wexarts.org
>
>14 & 16 October 2005
>San Francisco Cinematheque www.sfcinematheque.org
>
>25 & 26 October 2005
>Cinema Project, Portland www.cinemaproject.org
>
>2-27 November 2005
>Whitney Museum of American Art, New York www.whitney.org
>
>1 December 2005
>Syracuse University http://thursdayscreeners.cjb.net
>
>10 December 2005
>Pleasure Dome, Toronto www.pdome.org
>
>
>__________________________________________________________________
>For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
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For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.