Michael Snow Movies

Panning shot of a room while a group of people discusses film while eating at a table.

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 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...

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

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

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

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

Watch slides of Michael Snow's paintings from the worst seat in the house.

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...

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

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

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

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

Solar Breath (2002) is a 62-minute loop of fluttering curtains that reveal and conceal an idyllic landscape in rural Newfoundland.

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

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

Portrait of Michael Snow

This is the sound recording of the interview that Michael Snow, filmmaker, sculptor, photographer and visual artist, gave to Gérard Courant...