
Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind(2009)
Dialogues is Land's last film: A chaotic, self-reflexive experimental narrative about many, many things-- namely Land himself. A caustic, anything-goes attitude permeates the late work.
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Jennifer Gooch
Maya Deren
Morgan Fisher
Owen Land
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Anne Chovees
Liisa Liikala

Dialogues, or A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind
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Dialogues is Land's last film: A chaotic, self-reflexive experimental narrative about many, many things-- namely Land himself. A caustic, anything-goes attitude permeates the late work.
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2009-02-16
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