Most Popular Bob Cowan Trailers
Total trailers found: 39
05 November 1974
Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.
21 December 1967
A desperate, married woman meets a mysterious man who she blatantly desires. Through some twists and turns, things do not go over as well as she seems to wish.
31 August 1968
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.
01 January 1976
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.
30 November 2004
Mungo Baobab and his droids, Threepio and Artoo, are trailing the Rainbow comets of Manda in search of the fabled Roon system.
01 July 1966
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.
01 January 1968
" ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BLESSED culminates my involvement with artist Red Grooms and Mimi Gross. It is a diary of our work as we head for the Pacific Ocean in a suicidal plunge for theatrical infamy.
30 August 2018
Monsters from space attack earth, two scientists and a couple of teenagers try to stop the extraterrestrial invaders.
08 August 1968
"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.
20 October 1967
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.
01 January 1965
"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.
01 January 1968
"A personal melancholia concerning the death of my mother with my own personal memoir images of school, home, lost first love and fears of my own obliteration.
04 March 1964
A tender and realistic story of a scientist who falls in love with a mummy he has restored to life.
01 January 1966
A youth wanders the landscape of grass and sky in search of puzzling impulses.
01 January 1968
An abstract, rhythmically cut film with various images of women, some of whom are dancers. The sound track, which is semi-electronic, is composed and played by Cowan.
10 February 1967
A special guest appearance by Canadian TV star Bill Ronald along with the massive presence of "Mrs. Bronx" herself, Frances Leibowitz, and her girlfriend Iris, make this film a must-see for travel enthusiasts.
01 January 1983
"Just what it says." –B. C.
01 January 1975
A ritualistic mood piece with colour-rich images
01 January 1970
A dance-music-processional homage to the life force, a unification of nature and man, shot in San Francisco, Yosemite and New Mexico; made on a grant from the Canada Council.
28 February 1970
Edgar, an aristocrat, commissions Camillo to write a play based on an affair he had ten years ago with the Countess del Monaco.
26 September 1970
"...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.
01 January 1975
"Just what it says." –B. C.
10 February 1967
"SOUL FREEZE is Cowan's masterpiece to date, and one of the most consciously anguished of films. It is centered around a man who is being 'tempted' by female sexuality.
01 January 1966
"A film counterpointing the hard reality of the present with the fantastic actuality or imagining of the idyllic past.
01 January 1971
This movie was made mostly in Brooklyn during some very hot and empty evenings. Since the evenings were so empty, Jane Elford, the star, urged me to get started making another movie (we had completed PAGAN RHAPSODY the year before).
01 January 1976
Seadrift is based on a story The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft, and was shot partially in Marblehead Mass.
01 January 1967
"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.
01 January 1961
“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.
01 January 1969
Mike Kuchar'ss lyrical portrait of everyday life, from making art to making love, all as the Vietnam War rages.
01 January 1969
"From the way the film begins, and the way the outside images are used, it is clear that they are not intended to be entirely specific to the girl; not, say, to represent her 'thoughts.
01 January 1958
An insane, deformed killer stalks the grounds of a resort house, bringing sudden violence to those of easy virtue and godlessness.
04 March 1964
“LUST FOR ECSTASY is my most ambitious attempt since my last film…. I wrote many of the pungent scenes on the D train, and when I arrived on the set I ripped them up and let my emotional whims make chopped meat out of the performances and the story….
04 January 1965
One million years in the future, the human survivors of a nuclear war are served by robots called "fleshapoids.
01 January 1962
The film combines teenage lust and deranged delinquency to create a cautionary tale for the ages.