Michael Snow Movies

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

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

A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.

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

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

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...

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

Toronto is regarded as the third largest jazz centre in North America. This film features a cross-section of jazz bands of that city: the Lenny Breau...

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

"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...

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

To Lavoisier Who Died in the Reign of Terror (1991) is a collaboration with filmmaker Carl Brown, who specializes in homebrewed chemical film...

Portrait of Michael Snow

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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