Movies: Bob Cowan

A teenager and his girlfriend must save the world from "eye" aliens after their attempts to convince authorities of an invasion fall on deaf ears....

Mike Kuchar'ss lyrical portrait of everyday life, from making art to making love, all as the Vietnam War rages....

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image....

Monsters from space attack earth, two scientists and a couple of teenagers try to stop the extraterrestrial invaders....

A ritualistic mood piece with colour-rich images...

One million years in the future, the human survivors of a nuclear war are served by robots called "fleshapoids." One day, fleshapoid Xar runs wild, kills its mistress and seeks its mate, a servant of wicked Prince Gianbeno....

“It glows with the embers of desire! It smokes with the revelation of men and women longing for robust temptations that will make them sizzle into maturity with a furnace-blast of unrestrained animalism. A film for young and old to enjoy.” —George Ku...

Ken Jacobs’s most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of a now vanished neighborhood beneath the Brooklyn Bridge....

"...in a film abounding with humor and fertile with suggested points of departure for at least half a dozen more pictures, clearly deserves the encouragement that a top award can give." - Statement of the Judges of the First International Erotic Fil...

Made when I was a bit depressed which is nothing new,. Bob Cowan happened to be depressed as well and so we had a wonderful time working together. One of the actresses was separated from her husband at this time and the movie solidifies into concrete...

An insane, deformed killer stalks the grounds of a resort house, bringing sudden violence to those of easy virtue and godlessness....

A youth wanders the landscape of grass and sky in search of puzzling impulses....

A tender and realistic story of a scientist who falls in love with a mummy he has restored to life....

The film combines teenage lust and deranged delinquency to create a cautionary tale for the ages....

A young man's struggle with his sexuality overtakes his life, driving him deep into his subconscious where guilt and fears of physicality chase him still further. Cornered by an intangible terror, he realises he must either break out or break down....

"A tribute to overwhelming nature, this film is rich in both color and sound. A combination of original footage and images from children's books, text books, etc." –B. C....

"Parts of this film were shot for a mixed media show at the 'Electric Circus' in New York, and were later expanded and re-edited into the present form. A semi-documentary that gradually expands to a pure sight and sound experience. Music by Chambers ...

The Shadow Glass is roughly based on Ewers' 'Student of Prague'. It concerns a young man who, feeling incapable of surmounting the harsh realities of love and life, sends his reflection cut to procure and win for him the object of his desire. Rather ...

"A film counterpointing the hard reality of the present with the fantastic actuality or imagining of the idyllic past. This is best realized in the halting transition from the journey through time back to the watery one that evoked." –Ken Kelman...

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