Bob Cowan Movies

Seadrift is based on a story The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft, and was shot partially in Marblehead Mass. Each section represents a...

A ritualistic mood piece with colour-rich images

A tender and realistic story of a scientist who falls in love with a mummy he has restored to life.

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...

"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;...

The film combines teenage lust and deranged delinquency to create a cautionary tale for the ages.

" 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...

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

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...

"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,...

"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...

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

"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...

"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'...