Michael Snow Filmes

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...

A cross-hatched fantasy about nocturnal furniture love.

The apparent vertical scratch in celluloid that opens Presents literally opens into a film within the film. When its figure awakens into a woman in a...

"Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of three historic montage styles, for three...

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

Puccini Conservato uses a CD, a sound recording of some Puccini music (from La Bohème). The source of the sound (the loudspeakers) in a...

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

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

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

Reel 5 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

A surreal and comic exploration of an office space and its inhabitants and the decorations of a living room.

From La Région Centrale (1971), Snow orchestrates new patterns of movement that exchanges the focus on landscape with the cityscape of Toronto.

"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...

Using concert footage of the free-improvisation ensemble he co-founded in 1974, Snow digitally weaves together images and sounds from performances...

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

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

You see nothing but a white, crystal white plate, and water dripping into the plate, and you hear the sound of the water dripping. The film is ten...

"Vanity. Had a beard. Appearance (looks). Looking. Disappearance act. Hand-made fades and zooms but camera made shave. Camerazor. Handsome. Tired....

A dual-projection film where each director made 30 minutes of film without knowledge of what the other was making. Snow's side is a visual...

As the wheel turns, the religion of the body moves to and through the physical into the psychological. We see the feared, all is moved. There is a...