Here's an announcement of two upcoming programs at Rotterdam of the
films of George Landow, aka Owen Land:

http://www.hi-beam.net/fw/fw28/0153.html

I can't recommend these programs strongly enough. Landow is utterly
unique. A childhood friend of P. Adams Sitney's, he made perhaps the
first "structural" films in 1965, only to famously and hilariously
ridicule the whole concept in "Wide Angle Saxon." Deeply influenced by
Duchamp, his films are like no others, and in that sense he redefines
cinema in a profoundly hermetic, yet often hilarious, manner. Inspired
at times by instructional films (who can forget the immortal line in
"Institutional Quality," "Let's say your name is Madge and you've just
cooked some rice), fascinated by word games and palindromes, his films
are in part about varying degrees of artificiality in an utterly
"artificial medium." They have a rich intensity that probably can never
be completely unraveled.

The filmmaker made most of his films under the named of George Landow,
but changed it around 1980 to Owen Land.

These films were recently restored. Land is reportedly ill and no longer
working. A U.S. tour is scheduled for the fall.

Fred Camper