Michael Snow Movies

  • 1987
    I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art

    I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art

    I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art

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

    I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art
  • 1968
    A Lecture

    A Lecture

    A Lecture

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    This performance piece by filmmaker Hollis Frampton, recorded in 1968 in New York City, features the voice of artist Michael Snow. Frampton would...

    A Lecture
  • 1964
    Little Walk

    Little Walk

    Little Walk

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

    Little Walk
  • 2000
    Prelude

    Prelude

    Prelude

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

    Prelude
  • 1983
    Snow Business

    Snow Business

    Snow Business

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

    Snow Business
  • 2011
    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

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

    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
  • 1979
    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

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    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...

    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
  • 1968
    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

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    Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family,...

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
  • 1972
    Dream Life

    Dream Life

    Dream Life

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

    Dream Life
  • 2002
    *Corpus Callosum

    *Corpus Callosum

    *Corpus Callosum

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

    *Corpus Callosum
  • 1967
    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

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

    For Life, Against the War
  • 2002
    Solar Breath

    Solar Breath

    Solar Breath

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    Solar Breath (2002) is a 62-minute loop of fluttering curtains that reveal and conceal an idyllic landscape in rural Newfoundland.

    Solar Breath
  • 2006
    Reverberlin

    Reverberlin

    Reverberlin

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

    Reverberlin
  • 1985
    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

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    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...

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
  • 1988
    Seated Figures

    Seated Figures

    Seated Figures

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    Although Seated Figures is characteristically confined by a specific placement of the camera — in this case, fixed to the rear of a pickup...

    Seated Figures
  • 1967
    Bill's Hat

    Bill's Hat

    Bill's Hat

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    "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...

    Bill's Hat
  • 1970
    The Stone Age

    The Stone Age

    The Stone Age

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

    The Stone Age
  • 2009
    Puccini Conservato

    Puccini Conservato

    Puccini Conservato

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

    Puccini Conservato
  • 1971
    Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia

    Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia

    Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia

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

    Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia
  • 1979
    Cinématon V

    Cinématon V

    Cinématon V

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

    Cinématon V