Michael Snow Movies

  • 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
  • 2004
    Triage

    Triage

    Triage

    02004HD

    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
  • 1991
    To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror

    To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror

    To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror

    8.31991HD

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

    To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2009
    Puccini Conservato

    Puccini Conservato

    Puccini Conservato

    02009HD

    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
  • 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
  • 1987
    I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art

    I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art

    I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art

    51987HD

    This is an interesting little documentary about the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, which was apparently one of the global hotbeds of...

    I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art
  • 2001
    The Living Room

    The Living Room

    The Living Room

    52001HD

    Zooming back from an image in close-up a brightly colored and kitschy room is revealed. Digitally manipulated objects and figures appear/disappear,...

    The Living Room
  • 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
  • 2002
    Solar Breath

    Solar Breath

    Solar Breath

    02002HD

    Solar Breath (2002) is a 62-minute loop of fluttering curtains that reveal and conceal an idyllic landscape in rural Newfoundland.

    Solar Breath
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2013
    Snow In Vienna

    Snow In Vienna

    Snow In Vienna

    02013HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1990
    See You Later

    See You Later

    See You Later

    01990HD

    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
  • 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