Sunday May 31, 2009, 7:30 pm

Los Angeles Filmforum presents
Dialogues, by Owen Land – Los Angeles Premiere! Owen Land in person.
At the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas

Filmforum is delighted to welcome back legendary filmmaker Owen Land (formerly known as George Landow) for the official Los Angeles premiere of his newest work DIALOGUES.

Dialogues

On one level, DIALOGUES (2009, 133 minutes, video) is a parody of Scorpio Rising, using era-specific hit records to locate scenes in time; on another level, it’s an interpretation of Plato’s dialogue ‘Phaedo’, in which Socrates proves the doctrine of re-incarnation; on still another level, it is a polemic for the Tantric belief in the sacredness of male-female polarity in the form of thirty “Platonic Dialogues.” Rated R: Restricted to audiences with a knowledge of Art History. – Owen Land

Dialogues - The Urge To Merge

Dialogues is a feature-length self-reflexive experimental film by Apollo Jize (aka Owen Land) with music by the American Buddhist composer Meredith Monk, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, Yonkers, New York:

It was raining torrents in Torrance
But she had no rain insurance
She said to a molester
I’ll go back to Westchester
It never rains at Sarah Lawrence
But, alas, she finally went bonkers
Because it was raining in Yonkers
– Owen Land

More details at LA filmforum's blog.