Michael Snow Movies

  • 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
  • 1979
    Cinématon V

    Cinématon V

    Cinématon V

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

    Cinématon V
  • 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
  • 1996
    Michael Snow Up Close

    Michael Snow Up Close

    Michael Snow Up Close

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    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
  • 1990
    See You Later

    See You Later

    See You Later

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    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.

    See You Later
  • 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
  • 2019
    L’œil omnidirectionnel de Michael Snow

    L’œil omnidirectionnel de Michael Snow

    L’œil omnidirectionnel de Michael Snow

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    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
  • 1969
    Seminar

    Seminar

    Seminar

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

    Seminar
  • 2019
    Cityscape

    Cityscape

    Cityscape

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

    Cityscape
  • 1981
    Presents

    Presents

    Presents

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    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
  • 1979
    Cinématon n°44 : Michael Snow

    Cinématon n°44 : Michael Snow

    Cinématon n°44 : Michael Snow

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    Portrait of Michael Snow

    Cinématon n°44 : Michael Snow
  • 1969
    Back and Forth

    Back and Forth

    Back and Forth

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

    Back and Forth
  • 1967
    Standard Time

    Standard Time

    Standard Time

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

    Standard Time
  • 2013
    Snow In Vienna

    Snow In Vienna

    Snow In Vienna

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

    Snow In Vienna
  • 1974
    Two Sides to Every Story

    Two Sides to Every Story

    Two Sides to Every Story

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    Two 16mm films are projected in a loop on a thin painted aluminum screen hanging in the middle of a room. We can hear the projectors at each end of...

    Two Sides to Every Story
  • 2004
    Triage

    Triage

    Triage

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    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1982
    So Is This

    So Is This

    So Is This

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    English and French words flash individually over a black background.

    So Is This