P. Adams Sitney has written, "The most impressive avant-garde filmmaker of the 1970s was George Landow (a.k.a. Owen Land). Since 1969, when he released Institutional Quality and thereby found a place for his astonishing verbal wit in his cinema, he has produced a coherent body of aggressively original films and has asserted, through those films, a unique position in opposition to the very genre in which he works. That theoretical position has not always been immediately clear. In fact, each successive Land film seems to illuminate the ambiguities of the previous work while engendering its own obscurities. (I) write under the doubtful assumption that all of the films from Institutional Quality to On the Marriage Broker Joke... address a single urgent problem. The problem is the relationship of the self to truth. Rather than 'solving' the problem or defining its limits, Land's films have dramatized the elusiveness of that truth, the instability of the self, the inadequacy of cinema to represent either the self or truth, and the urgency of the need to do this very thing for which it is ill-equipped, and to do nothing else. Land cultivates the paradox. It is not surprising that his films are enthusiastically received even by those whom he attacks; for he instinctively locates the axis of truth at the point of maximal absurdity in his films."Film in Which There Appear Sprocket Holes, Edge Lettering, Dirt Particles, Etc. (1965-66, 4.5 mins, Color, Silent). Diploteratology (1967, 7 mins, Silent, Color). Remedial Reading Comprehension (1970, 5 mins, Color). What's Wrong with This Picture? (1972, 5 mins, Color/B&W). A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California (1974, 11.5 mins, Color). New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals, A Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops (1976, 10 mins, Color). On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed? (1980, 17.5 mins, Color). Noli Me Tangere (1984, 6 mins, Color, 3/4" video). Plus a reading by the artist.