Michael Snow Movies

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

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

This is an interesting little documentary about the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, which was apparently one of the global hotbeds of...

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...

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...

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

"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...

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

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

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...

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

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

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

To Lavoisier Who Died in the Reign of Terror (1991) is a collaboration with filmmaker Carl Brown, who specializes in homebrewed chemical film...

Two 16mm films are projected in a loop on a thin painted aluminum screen hanging in the middle of a room. We can hear the projectors at each end of...

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

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

A camera moves back and forth at an increasing pace. Back and forth, back and forth...

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

Little Walk (1964) is Michael Snow’s first gallery film installation. It arrives as a diplomatic envoy from New York’s art and film...