[1] In New York, Markpoulous became a mentor for Owens, introducing him to influential figures in filmmaking and art such as Andy Warhol, Gerard Malanga, Marie Menken, Gregory Battcock and Charles Boultenhouse.
[3] He ended his film career at the young age of 20, when his self-proclaimed drug addiction and undiagnosed bipolar disorder began to take their toll.
[5] A fourth surviving title, Autre Fois J'ai Aime Une Femme (1966), was preserved through state-of-the-art 5K digital transfer, facilitated by MM Serra of The Film-Makers' Cooperative along with Owens' three other films.
[1] Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts (1968–70) focuses more directly on Owens' mother, layering her image with those from magazines and other pop cultural sources.
[11] In 2006, Ronald Gregg included Owens' films into a screening series at the University of Chicago titled "Beyond Warhol, Smith, and Anger: Recovering the Significance of Postwar Queer Underground Cinema, 1950-1968".
[13] These digital transfers allowed for distribution and world-wide visibility of Owens' films through online Video on Demand programs.