Michael Snow Movies

Wavelength consists of almost no action, and what action does occur is largely elided. If the film could be said to have a conventional plot, this...

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

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

"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...

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

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

English and French words flash individually over a black background.

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...

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

World renowned artist and filmmaker Michael Snow continues to push the boundaries of yet another field, music. The avant-garde greats mastery of...

A loop of two parts of a film, superimposed on top of one another, that concern a man who has arrived at the house of his lover and her husband to...

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.

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

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

A cross-hatched fantasy about nocturnal furniture love.

"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 man (Snow himself) rises from his desk, puts on his scarf and coat, says goodbye to a woman typing at a nearby desk, and leaves the room.

An unreleased diary film shot during the Fairleigh-Dickinson Artist Seminar simultaneous to the production of Back and Forth by Michael Snow.