Michael Snow Movies

  • 1969
    Seminar

    Seminar

    Seminar

    01969HD

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

    Seminar
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    01985HD

    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 2002
    *Corpus Callosum

    *Corpus Callosum

    *Corpus Callosum

    5.52002HD

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

    *Corpus Callosum
  • 1967
    Standard Time

    Standard Time

    Standard Time

    5.51967HD

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

    Standard Time
  • 1979
    Cinématon V

    Cinématon V

    Cinématon V

    01979HD

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

    Cinématon V
  • 1983
    Snow Business

    Snow Business

    Snow Business

    01983HD

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

    Snow Business
  • 1981
    Presents

    Presents

    Presents

    6.31981HD

    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...

    Presents
  • 1968
    Snowblind

    Snowblind

    Snowblind

    4.81968HD

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

    Snowblind
  • 2002
    Solar Breath

    Solar Breath

    Solar Breath

    32002HD

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

    Solar Breath
  • 1970
    The Stone Age

    The Stone Age

    The Stone Age

    01970HD

    "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

    02009HD

    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
  • 1968
    A Lecture

    A Lecture

    A Lecture

    01968HD

    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
  • 1967
    Wavelength

    Wavelength

    Wavelength

    5.21967HD

    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...

    Wavelength
  • 2003
    WVLNT

    WVLNT

    WVLNT

    6.52003HD

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

    WVLNT
  • 2004
    Triage

    Triage

    Triage

    02004HD

    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...

    Triage
  • 1969
    Dripping Water

    Dripping Water

    Dripping Water

    3.21969HD

    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...

    Dripping Water
  • 1982
    So Is This

    So Is This

    So Is This

    71982HD

    English and French words flash individually over a black background.

    So Is This
  • 1966
    Manual of Arms

    Manual of Arms

    Manual of Arms

    51966HD

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

    Manual of Arms
  • 1989
    Cloister

    Cloister

    Cloister

    01989HD

    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...

    Cloister
  • 1971
    Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia

    Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia

    Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia

    6.41971HD

    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