Bob Cowan

Bob Cowan


Died: June 21, 2011
in Toronto, Canada
Bob Cowan, also known as Robert Cowan, was a part of the New York underground film scene of the ’60s where he worked largely as an actor. He also served on the board of the Filmmakers’ Coop.

Movies for Bob Cowan...

Monster Invaders from Space
Title: Monster Invaders from Space
Character: Cpl. Culver (archive footage)
Released: August 30, 2018
Type: Movie
Monsters from space attack earth, two scientists and a couple of teenagers try to stop the extraterrestrial invaders.
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Seadrift
Title: Seadrift
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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 synthesis of the various aspects and moods of the story. The sum total of the fragments expresses the atmosphere of the whole.
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Magicman
Title: Magicman
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A ritualistic mood piece with colour-rich images
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‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
Title: ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
Released: November 5, 1974
Type: Movie
Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.
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Portrait of Ramona
Title: Portrait of Ramona
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
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 get started making another movie (we had completed PAGAN RHAPSODY the year before). I said "okay," and launched her in a photographed series of telephone calls, not really knowing who was going to be on the other end. I was interested at the time in irrational, neurotic responses and so the heroine was put into unstable situations that I dreamt up because I was making a movie with a plot and there should be some action .... Many of the stars appear nude and all I can say is that because of the heat and the general, overall feeling of the film which is one of the usual desperation and explosive emotions, I couldn't see any other way of them playing it. The general tone of everything was ... "Why even bother to get dressed?"
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Secks
Title: Secks
Released: September 26, 1970
Type: Movie
"...in a film abounding with humor and fertile with suggested points of departure for at least half a dozen more pictures, clearly deserves the encouragement that a top award can give." - Statement of the Judges of the First International Erotic Film Festival (Bruce Conner, Maurice Girodias, and Arthur Knight)
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Pagan Rhapsody
Title: Pagan Rhapsody
Released: February 28, 1970
Type: Movie
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 to find a suitable actress to play the Countess – his search will lead to his own death.
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Chronicles
Title: Chronicles
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Mike Kuchar'ss lyrical portrait of everyday life, from making art to making love, all as the Vietnam War rages.
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The Sky Socialist
Title: The Sky Socialist
Character: Maurice
Released: August 31, 1968
Type: Movie
Ken Jacobs’s most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of a now vanished neighborhood beneath the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Encyclopedia of the Blessed
Title: Encyclopedia of the Blessed
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
" 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 Ocean in a suicidal plunge for theatrical infamy. The film traces the construction of two craven images made in the likeness of myself by Grooms and Gross. Then it switches to the sandhills of Nebraska where fat cattle walk around. There the film explores Grooms' biggest construction, "The Chicago Installation." The film rolls relentlessly onward to the West Coast showing, for the first time on any screen, a theatrical production we three put in the University of California. It marks my directorial debut on the stage and Red Grooms' comeback after ten years of exile from live theatre." - George Kuchar
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Color Me Shameless
Title: Color Me Shameless
Released: December 29, 1967
Type: Movie
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The Craven Sluck
Title: The Craven Sluck
Character: Florence
Released: December 21, 1967
Type: Movie
A desperate, married woman meets a mysterious man who she blatantly desires. Through some twists and turns, things do not go over as well as she seems to wish.
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The Eye Creatures
Title: The Eye Creatures
Released: October 20, 1967
Type: Movie
A teenager and his girlfriend must save the world from "eye" aliens after their attempts to convince authorities of an invasion fall on deaf ears.
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Mosholu Holiday
Title: Mosholu Holiday
Released: February 10, 1967
Type: Movie
A special guest appearance by Canadian TV star Bill Ronald along with the massive presence of "Mrs. Bronx" herself, Frances Leibowitz, and her girlfriend Iris, make this film a must-see for travel enthusiasts...
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The Secret of Wendel Samson
Title: The Secret of Wendel Samson
Released: July 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A young man's struggle with his sexuality overtakes his life, driving him deep into his subconscious where guilt and fears of physicality chase him still further. Cornered by an intangible terror, he realises he must either break out or break down.
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Green Desire
Title: Green Desire
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A youth wanders the landscape of grass and sky in search of puzzling impulses.
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Sins of the Fleshapoids
Title: Sins of the Fleshapoids
Character: Xar / Narrator
Released: January 4, 1965
Type: Movie
One million years in the future, the human survivors of a nuclear war are served by robots called "fleshapoids." One day, fleshapoid Xar runs wild, kills its mistress and seeks its mate, a servant of wicked Prince Gianbeno.
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Lust for Ecstasy
Title: Lust for Ecstasy
Released: March 4, 1964
Type: Movie
“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 arrived on the set I ripped them up and let my emotional whims make chopped meat out of the performances and the story…. Yes, LUST FOR ECSTASY is my subconscious, my own naked lusts that sweep across the screen in 8mm and color with full fidelity sound.” – George Kuchar
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Born of the Wind
Title: Born of the Wind
Released: March 4, 1964
Type: Movie
A tender and realistic story of a scientist who falls in love with a mummy he has restored to life.
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Night of the Bomb
Title: Night of the Bomb
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
The film combines teenage lust and deranged delinquency to create a cautionary tale for the ages.
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Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof
Title: Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
“It glows with the embers of desire! It smokes with the revelation of men and women longing for robust temptations that will make them sizzle into maturity with a furnace-blast of unrestrained animalism. A film for young and old to enjoy.” —George Kuchar
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The Slasher
Title: The Slasher
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
An insane, deformed killer stalks the grounds of a resort house, bringing sudden violence to those of easy virtue and godlessness.