Michael Snow Movies

  • 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
  • 2003
    WVLNT

    WVLNT

    WVLNT

    6.52003HD

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

    WVLNT
  • 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
    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

    7.51979HD

    Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of...

    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
  • 1971
    Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia)

    Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia)

    Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia)

    6.5591971HD

    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)
  • 1972
    Dream Life

    Dream Life

    Dream Life

    4.61972HD

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

    Dream Life
  • 2011
    Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman

    Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman

    Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman

    02011HD

    A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.

    Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
  • 1985
    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    8.31985HD

    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
  • 2016
    EXPRMNTL

    EXPRMNTL

    EXPRMNTL

    02016HD

    Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second...

    EXPRMNTL
  • 2016
    Portrait of Snow

    Portrait of Snow

    Portrait of Snow

    02016HD

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

    Portrait of Snow
  • 1963
    Toronto Jazz

    Toronto Jazz

    Toronto Jazz

    7.51963HD

    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...

    Toronto Jazz
  • 1967
    Standard Time

    Standard Time

    Standard Time

    7.751967HD

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

    Standard Time
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1967
    Bill's Hat

    Bill's Hat

    Bill's Hat

    01967HD

    "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...

    Bill's Hat
  • 1971
    La Région Centrale

    La Région Centrale

    La Région Centrale

    7.11971HD

    A 1971 experimental Canadian film directed by Michael Snow. Shot in the Canadian mountains over a period of 24 hours using a robotic arm.

    La Région Centrale
  • 2019
    Waivelength

    Waivelength

    Waivelength

    02019HD

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

    Waivelength
  • 1976
    Breakfast (Table-Top Dolly)

    Breakfast (Table-Top Dolly)

    Breakfast (Table-Top Dolly)

    4.61976HD

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

    Breakfast (Table-Top Dolly)
  • 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
  • 1982
    So Is This

    So Is This

    So Is This

    71982HD

    English and French words flash individually over a black background.

    So Is This