Edward
Owens

Edward Owens (1949–2009) was a queer African-American filmmaker who was involved with the New American Cinema of the 1960s. He is best known for his experimental films Remembrance: A Portrait Study (1967) and Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts (1968-70). When he moved to New York City as a young man, Owens was hired by Jonas Mekas to work at the Film-makers' Cinemateque. When Mekas saw Owens' films he was invited to join the FMC for distribution as a part of the New American Cineam movement.  

In 2016, Executive Director MM Serra collaborated with IndieCollect to preserve the four Owens films within the NACG collection through a 5k digital scanning process. The digital transfer was supervised by NACG's digital media specialist Sheldon Henderson.