[Frameworks] Owen Land (aka George Landow) (1944-2011)
Mark Toscano
fiddybop at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 14 12:48:11 CDT 2011
I can't speak for all cases of the preservation work, but in at least some, I know that the archives initiated and funded the work. I'd love to know more actually - I've always been curious how the Austrian Filmmuseum got involved (though I suppose it'd make more sense to ask them directly).
Mark
--- On Wed, 7/13/11, Fred Camper <f at fredcamper.com> wrote:
> From: Fred Camper <f at fredcamper.com>
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Owen Land (aka George Landow) (1944-2011)
> To: "Experimental Film Discussion List" <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
> Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 11:26 PM
> Quoting Mark Toscano <fiddybop at yahoo.com>:
>
> > And i should say that, although Mark Webber did an
> amazing job
> > unearthing, working with, writing on, and curating
> Owen's work, the
> > preservation of the films was done separately by the
> Austrian
> > Filmmuseum, Anthology Film Archives, and Pacific Film
> Archive.
>
> Did those archives initiate the preservation work? Did they
> pay for it?
>
> > By the way, Sandy Maliga posted a notice over a week
> ago about
> > Owen's passing, and it got no response. Just
> curious if others on
> > the list received that or somehow not...?
>
> I saw it, but was waiting for more detail; the gallery
> announcement
> gave me something to respond to.
>
> Yet another typo in my post: I meant "original
> palindromes." Maybe I
> should post a corrected version...
>
> Fred Camper
> Chicago
>
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