Michael Snow Filmes

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

Wavelength consists of almost no action, and what action does occur is largely elided. If the film could be said to have a conventional plot, this...

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

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

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 1971 experimental Canadian film directed by Michael Snow. Shot in the Canadian mountains over a period of 24 hours using a robotic arm.

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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

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

English and French words flash individually over a black background.

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

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

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...

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

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

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

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...

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...

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

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