Michael Snow Movies

  • 1964
    Little Walk

    Little Walk

    Little Walk

    01964HD

    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
  • 1970
    Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film

    Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film

    Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film

    01970HD

    Watch slides of Michael Snow's paintings from the worst seat in the house.

    Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film
  • 2019
    Cityscape

    Cityscape

    Cityscape

    5.42019HD

    From La Région Centrale (1971), Snow orchestrates new patterns of movement that exchanges the focus on landscape with the cityscape of Toronto.

    Cityscape
  • 2006
    Reverberlin

    Reverberlin

    Reverberlin

    02006HD

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

    Reverberlin
  • 2011
    Michael Snow Portrait

    Michael Snow Portrait

    Michael Snow Portrait

    02011HD

    Hand processed 35mm portrait of Michael Snow.

    Michael Snow Portrait
  • 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
  • 1979
    Cinématon V

    Cinématon V

    Cinématon V

    01979HD

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

    Cinématon V
  • 1988
    Seated Figures

    Seated Figures

    Seated Figures

    01988HD

    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
    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
  • 1983
    Funnel Piano

    Funnel Piano

    Funnel Piano

    01983HD

    A rare film shot in Super 8 by Michael Snow in 1984 that is almost unseen: an exercise in improvisation in which Snow plays the piano with one hand...

    Funnel Piano
  • 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
  • 1956
    A to Z

    A to Z

    A to Z

    4.51956HD

    A cross-hatched fantasy about nocturnal furniture love.

    A to Z
  • 1996
    Michael Snow Up Close

    Michael Snow Up Close

    Michael Snow Up Close

    61996HD

    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 Up Close
  • 2019
    L’œil omnidirectionnel de Michael Snow

    L’œil omnidirectionnel de Michael Snow

    L’œil omnidirectionnel de Michael Snow

    02019HD

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

    L’œil omnidirectionnel de Michael Snow
  • 1965
    Short Shave

    Short Shave

    Short Shave

    01965HD

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

    Short Shave
  • 1970
    A Casing Shelved

    A Casing Shelved

    A Casing Shelved

    01970HD

    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...

    A Casing Shelved
  • 1976
    Breakfast (Table-Top Dolly)

    Breakfast (Table-Top Dolly)

    Breakfast (Table-Top Dolly)

    4.41976HD

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

    Breakfast (Table-Top Dolly)
  • 1979
    Cinématon n°44 : Michael Snow

    Cinématon n°44 : Michael Snow

    Cinématon n°44 : Michael Snow

    01979HD

    Portrait of Michael Snow

    Cinématon n°44 : Michael Snow
  • 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
  • 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