No Sir, Orison!
Stills
About
Orison means prayer. The title of the film is a palindrome, that is, it reads the same backward or forward. The film grew out of the attempt to create a structure around my first original palindrome, "no sir, orison," written while working on WIDE ANGLE SAXON. "No sir, orison" is the answer to a question. The question soon revealed itself to be: "what's this, meditation?" Someone is praying in the aisle of a ... church? No, a supermarket. The prayer, perhaps asking for God's mercy on those behind the evil practices of the "plastic" food industry – people who have substituted disease-producing non-nutritive products for the God-given plants that were intended for human food – is a silent protest against the supermarket and all that it represents: manipulation and exploitation of a gullible public to increase the wealth of a powerful elite. The next element to be added was the song, a reworking of an anonymous 17th century song "praising" tobacco. The film might have been entitled "Practical Solutions to the Problem of the Supermarket." The protagonist is played by an artist who calls himself Hermen Euticalcircle, with whom I have collaborated on several live performances.
Films
-
Other films by this artist in our catalogue
- Read MoreExperimental
Film in Which There Appear Sprocket Holes, Edge Lettering, Dirt Particles, 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 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