Michael Snow Movies

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

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...

"Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of three historic montage styles, for three...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

"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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

A cross-hatched fantasy about nocturnal furniture love.

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

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