Michael Snow Movies

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

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

A new performance that reworks the 1967 film’s sine wave soundtrack into a new composition distributed across multiple channels of sound in...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of...

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

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

English and French words flash individually over a black background.

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

"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...

Hand processed 35mm portrait of Michael Snow.