MAKING LIGHT OF IT

In Light of his passing, the following interview between Owen Land (George Landow) and P. Adams Sitney is from the No. 47 issue of Film Culture circa 1969...

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(image via Art in America)

(from Fleming Faloon via Anthology Archives)

(from Film In Which There Appears... via Anthology Archives)

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For a more recent encounter with Land, see the following videos with Land from the LAFF:

Pt. One

&

Pt. Two

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"By the way, the film was booed at the Cinematheque and it was cut off before its proper time (twenty-two minutes).  Someone shouted, and he meant it as a joke: 'Another genius was born tonight at the Cinematheque!'  But I state it here in all seriousness." 

- Jonas Mekas on George Landow aka Owen Land circa 1965

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The following is an expanded (yet still brief) chronological glimpse at some of the uses of text throughout film history...

  College Chums (1907, Edwin S. Porter)*

 

 Anemic Cinema (1926, Marcel Duchamp)*

 

 N. or N.W. (1937, Len Lye)

 

 A Movie (1958, Bruce Conner)*

 Word Movie (1966, Paul Sharits)*

 

 Poemfield No. 2 (1966, Stan VanderBeek)

 

 Rat Life and Diet in North America (1968, Joyce Wieland)*

 

 Bleu Shut (1970, Robert Nelson)*

 Remedial Reading Comprehension (1970, George Landow)*

 

 Film About a Woman Who… (1974, Yvonne Rainer)*

 

 Projection Instructions (1976, Morgan Fisher)*

 

 Argument (1978, Anthony McCall and Andrew Tyndall)*

 

 Gloria! (1979, Hollis Frampton)

 

 1857 (Fool’s Gold) (1981, R. Bruce Elder)*

 

 So Is This (1982, Michael Snow)*

 

 Secondary Currents (1983, Peter Rose)*

 

 Landfall (1983, Rick Hancox)

 

 Gently Down the Stream (1984, Su Friedrich)*

 American Dreams (1984, James Benning)*
 

 The Secret Garden (1988, Phil Solomon)

 

 Untitled (For Marilyn) (1992, Stan Brakhage)

 Air Cries ‘Empty Water’ Pt. One: Misery Loves Company (1993, Carl E. Brown)

 Histoire(s) du Cinema (1988-1998, Jean-Luc Godard)

 

 As I Was Moving Ahead… (2000, Jonas Mekas)

 

 Secret History of the Dividing Line (2002, David Gatten)

 

 Star Spangled to Death (1957-2004, Ken Jacobs)

 

 Let Me Count the Ways (2004, Leslie Thornton)

 

 The General Returns From One Place to Another (2006, Michael Robinson)

 

 Unas fotos en la ciudad de Sylvia (2007, Jose Luis Guerin)

 (If I Can Sing A Song About) Ligatures (2009, Abigail Child)