Comments on: The Owl’s Legacy: Filmnotes @ PFA

By: oscar

oscar — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:20:56 +0000

WHY NO DVD!?!?

By: sarah

sarah — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:11:24 +0000

I asked the Otolith Group about these videos and they said they were under strict instructions from Chris Marker not to lend them to anyone. So, I visited the Turner prize exhibition for the third time yesterday and watched all 13 episodes. I arrived before 11am and was there until the gallery closed and it was fantastic. Highlights for me were the music and tragedy episodes, but it’s all wonderful stuff. If only we could see this kind of thing on TV today.

By: MG

MG — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:59:27 +0000

anyone interested to see the exhibition for free (which contain’s The Owls Legacy 13 episodes) & Otolith III – contact me at codename-mgx_305.89@hotmail.co.uk – I will be going most probably this friday.

By: Britt

Britt — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:34:51 +0000

I agree that this video work would be fantastic to be able to see at home with ones friens. So much interesting information by so many interesting scholars built up like a platonic symposium, discussing one matter at the time, totally thirteen, would be just fantastic to get on a DVD. I spent five hours at Tate but realized too late the value of all these videos so I did not have time to see them all. For that you need almost six hours!!
And now I am far away and not sure that I will be able to come back and see the rest, as long as they are shown on Tate, lika the ones on Olympics, History, Mathematics and some more.

By: John Fitzgerald

John Fitzgerald — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 21:30:20 +0000

Very jealous! Wish I could be in London.

By: Toby

Toby — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:40:38 +0000

I’ve just been to the Tate today; returned home in excitment having been introduced to this amazing video by the incredible Otolith Group on, maybe YouTube, or perhaps after some burrowing somewhere more obscure: but nowhere! Why isn’t it a classic! SO ANNOYED! I might have to go back and sit in the the Tate for three hours. Amazing.

By: Marilena

Marilena — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:59:17 +0000

if you are both going there anyways (i’d go too if i could, but i am currently on the other side of europe..), why not approach the artists and ask them how they got access to the video and if it is possible for others to do so as well? maybe even if there is someone to contact that could be made aware of the fact that there are people out there who think “the owl’s legacy” should c1rculate more broadly — what i’m saying is maybe some small-scale lobbying from the audience wouldn’t hurt. if you get some kind of contact info, do post it here so that all that are interested could send an e-mail or sth..

By: Odhran

Odhran — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 07:41:13 +0000

It seems it is impossible to purchase The Owl’s Legacy on DVD but if you are in London in the next few months, it is being shown as part of one of the finalist’s exhibits in the Turner Prize in the Tate Britain. The Otolith Group – artists Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar – in their thirteen screen installation are showing a different episode of the The Owl’s Legacy on each screen. This may be the best opportunity to see it although it is not the ideal place. Bring your fold-up chair!

By: henry

henry — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:48:21 +0000

Is there any way of seeing or purchasing this series?
I would be hugely grateful to whomever has any information

By: Marilena

Marilena — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:14:03 +0000

please, if anyone knows a way to find a copy of this masterpiece do post it here.. i cannot believe there are such few mentions of it all over the internet. i’ve watched the whole thing in a filmhouse in amsterdam several years ago and it deeply affected me, i dare say it changed my worldview. this is the kind of stuff that should be online for all people to watch and be educated – not a rarity so impossible to find! if anyone can do something about that, it would be just wonderful. and it’s about time.