Michael Snow Movies

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

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...

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

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

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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

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

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

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

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

Michael Snow narrates a series of Hollis Frampton's photographs (speaking as Frampton, in the first person)—as each picture catches fire on a...

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...

English and French words flash individually over a black background.

Hand processed 35mm portrait of Michael Snow.

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

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...

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...