Bob Cowan Movies

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...

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...

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...

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 tribute to overwhelming nature, this film is rich in both color and sound. A combination of original footage and images from children's books,...

"...in a film abounding with humor and fertile with suggested points of departure for at least half a dozen more pictures, clearly deserves the...

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

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...

"Just what it says." –B. C.

"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 ritualistic mood piece with colour-rich images

"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.

"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;...