Michael Snow Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1971
    Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia)

    Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia)

    Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia)

    6.61971HD

    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)
  • 1964
    New York Eye and Ear Control

    New York Eye and Ear Control

    New York Eye and Ear Control

    6.81964HD

    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...

    New York Eye and Ear Control
  • 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
    Cityscape

    Cityscape

    Cityscape

    5.42019HD

    From La Région Centrale (1971), Snow orchestrates new patterns of movement that exchanges the focus on landscape with the cityscape of Toronto.

    Cityscape
  • 2003
    WVLNT

    WVLNT

    WVLNT

    6.52003HD

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

    WVLNT
  • 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
  • 1974
    Two Sides to Every Story

    Two Sides to Every Story

    Two Sides to Every Story

    8.51974HD

    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...

    Two Sides to Every Story
  • 1969
    Back and Forth

    Back and Forth

    Back and Forth

    6.71969HD

    A camera moves back and forth at an increasing pace. Back and forth, back and forth...

    Back and Forth
  • 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
  • 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

    5.51987HD

    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
  • 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
  • 1981
    Presents

    Presents

    Presents

    6.61981HD

    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...

    Presents
  • 1967
    Standard Time

    Standard Time

    Standard Time

    7.81967HD

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

    Standard Time
  • 2002
    *Corpus Callosum

    *Corpus Callosum

    *Corpus Callosum

    5.72002HD

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

    *Corpus Callosum
  • 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
  • 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)