Remedial Reading Comprehension
About
Two kinds of material are used: 1) Material in the tradition of the "psycho-drama" or "personal film"; 2) Material of the sort used in industrial, educational, or advertising film. Questions are raised about the necessity of using acceptably "artistic" material to make a work of art, as well as about the relationships between "personal" and "impersonal" works. "One of the ways that REMEDIAL READING COMPREHENSION works is in the degree of filmic distance which each image has in the film. Distance here refers to the degree of awareness on the part of the viewer that the image he is watching is a film image, rather than 'reality.' [Land's] film does not try to build up an illusion of reality, to combine the images together with the kind of spatial or rhythmic continuity that would suggest that one is watching 'real' people or objects. It works rather toward the opposite end, to make one aware of the unreality, the created and mechanical nature, of film." – Fred Camper, Film Culture
Films
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Film in Which There Appear Sprocket Holes, Edge Lettering, Dirt Particals, etc.
Owen Land16mm, color, silent, 4.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Diploteratology: Bardo Follies
Owen Land16mm, black and white, silent, 7 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter
Owen Land16mm, black and white, sound, 8.75 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
What's Wrong With This Picture?
Owen Land16mm, color and b/w, sound, 12.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present
Owen Land16mm, color and b/w, sound, 5.75 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California
Owen Land16mm, color, sound, 11.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
No Sir, Orison!
Owen Land16mm, color, sound, 2.75 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimentalNarrative
Wide Angle Saxon
Owen Land16mm, color, sound, 22 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops
Owen Land16mm, color, sound, 10 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
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?
Owen Land16mm, color, sound, 17.5 minRental format: 16mm