Michael Snow Movies

Interview and profile of experimental filmmaker Michael Snow from 1983. Includes extracts from 'Back and Forth', 'Wavelength', 'La Region Central',...

A shorter, significantly altered version of Wavelength (1967), where the original film is overlayed upon itself.

Panning shot of a room while a group of people discusses film while eating at a table.

Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of...

Michael Snow narrates a series of Hollis Frampton's photographs (speaking as Frampton, in the first person)—as each picture catches fire on a...

Two twenty-something women dream of the ideal man and slowly realize that reality is very different from their fantasies.

A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.

Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World belongs to a 35-hour film cycle, The Book of All the Dead, which comprises the bulk of Toronto-based Bruce...

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second...

A serendipitous encounter with a younger artist gives legendary Canadian art icon Michael Snow the opportunity to reflect on his life and career.

Toronto is regarded as the third largest jazz centre in North America. This film features a cross-section of jazz bands of that city: the Lenny Breau...

Experimental short in which a camera pans quickly in a small apartment space; Disembodied voices speak of audience engagement.

"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante

In this "fourteen-part drill for the camera," Frampton created a portrait gallery of his art-world friends engaging in a variety of ordinary...

"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my...

A 1971 experimental Canadian film directed by Michael Snow. Shot in the Canadian mountains over a period of 24 hours using a robotic arm.

A new performance that reworks the 1967 film’s sine wave soundtrack into a new composition distributed across multiple channels of sound in...

A continuous zoom traverses the space of a breakfast table, serving as a grand metaphor for indigestion.

MICHAEL SNOW UP CLOSE was produced on the occasion of The Michael Snow Project, a major, career-spanning, multi-venue retrospective of the artist....

English and French words flash individually over a black background.