Bob Cowan Movies

A ritualistic mood piece with colour-rich images

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...

Made when I was a bit depressed which is nothing new,. Bob Cowan happened to be depressed as well and so we had a wonderful time working together....

"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,...

"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;...

"A film counterpointing the hard reality of the present with the fantastic actuality or imagining of the idyllic past. This is best realized in the...

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...

"Just what it says." –B. C.

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...

"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...

" 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...

"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'...

"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...

"Just what it says." –B. C.