What's Wrong With This Picture?
16mm, color and b/w, sound, 12.5 min
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"The first portion of this film is an old instructional film about being a 'good citizen,' presented intact; the second section is a color reconstruction of this black and white film by Land. The original ...
Rental format: 16mm
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"The first portion of this film is an old instructional film about being a 'good citizen,' presented intact; the second section is a color reconstruction of this black and white film by Land. The original film abounds in absurdities in both image and sound; [Land's] 'copy' is even more bizarre. Both are also extremely funny, and the humor is not totally without meaning: it comes out of the way that each line of dialog, each direction given, implies a situation or character so absurdly plodding as to be almost inconceivable. In [Land's] version he creates an additional paradox – one of depth – by matting out certain parts of the frame." – Fred Camper
Films
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Film in Which There Appear Sprocket Holes, Edge Lettering, Dirt Particles, etc.
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Diploteratology: Bardo Follies
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The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter
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Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present
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A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California
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No Sir, Orison!
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Wide Angle Saxon
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New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops
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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