Michael Snow Movies

Portrait of Michael Snow

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

Michael Snow's 1970 film A Casing Shelved combines a projection of a 35mm slide showing a bookcase in Snow's studio with a tape-recorded narration by...

A loop of two parts of a film, superimposed on top of one another, that concern a man who has arrived at the house of his lover and her husband to...

This performance piece by filmmaker Hollis Frampton, recorded in 1968 in New York City, features the voice of artist Michael Snow. Frampton would...

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...

English and French words flash individually over a black background.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

A cutout of a woman's silhouette is displayed in many locations while a free jazz soundtrack is heard. The jazz musicians later pose for the camera...

A cross-hatched fantasy about nocturnal furniture love.

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

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

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

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...

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...