Bob Cowan Movies

"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,...

"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...

A youth wanders the landscape of grass and sky in search of puzzling impulses.

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...

"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,...

Edgar, an aristocrat, commissions Camillo to write a play based on an affair he had ten years ago with the Countess del Monaco. But Edgar first has...

“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...

"Just what it says." –B. C.

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...

Mike Kuchar'ss lyrical portrait of everyday life, from making art to making love, all as the Vietnam War rages.

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....

"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;...

"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...