Michael Snow Movies

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

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

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.

This is the sound recording of the interview that Michael Snow, filmmaker, sculptor, photographer and visual artist, gave to Gérard Courant...

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

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

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

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

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...

"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...

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

A cutout of a woman's silhouette is displayed in many locations while a free jazz soundtrack is heard. The jazz musicians later pose for the camera...

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

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...

MICHAEL SNOW UP CLOSE was produced on the occasion of The Michael Snow Project, a major, career-spanning, multi-venue retrospective of the artist....

Michael Snow's 1970 film A Casing Shelved combines a projection of a 35mm slide showing a bookcase in Snow's studio with a tape-recorded narration by...

Hand processed 35mm portrait of Michael Snow.

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...

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

Zooming back from an image in close-up a brightly colored and kitschy room is revealed. Digitally manipulated objects and figures appear/disappear,...