Michael Snow
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Michael Snow was considered one of Canada's most important artists, and one of the world's leading experimental filmmakers. His wide-ranging and multidisciplinary oeuvre explored the possibilities inherent in different mediums and genres, and encompassed film and video, painting, sculpture, photography, writing, and music. Snow's practice comprised a thorough investigation into the nature of perception.
While Snow early established himself as a successful painter and musician in his native Toronto, it was his 1962 move to New York City that marked the beginning of his rise to international prominence. He entered into a long-lasting and fruitful dialogue with downtown Manhattan's artistic avant garde, exchanging ideas with figures such as Yvonne Rainer, Philip Glass, Sol LeWitt, and Richard Foreman, and developing of some of his most ambitious and influential works to date. His 1964 film New York Eye and Ear Control documents his growing involvement with the burgeoning free jazz movement, and the soundtrack boasts a lineup that includes Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, and Sonny Murray. Snow would continue to pursue improvised music, both on his own and in ensembles such as Toronto's CCMC. The generation and reception of sound in the broader sense emerged as one of his main concerns, reflected in performance and tape works that share qualities with contemporaneous experiments by composers like Steve Reich.
At the same time, Snow made alliances within the underground film scene centered around Jonas Mekas' Filmmakers' Cinematheque, an experience that encouraged him to find ways to transfer his concerns with music and photography into the realm of the moving image. He assisted Hollis Frampton on films such as Nostalgia(1971), and it was legendary director Ken Jacobs whose loan of equipment helped Snow create his most famous and influential work, the groundbreaking 1967 film Wavelength. Wavelength, which notoriously includes a 45-minute camera zoom within a fixed frame, remains one of the most studied and admired works of structuralist filmmaking. Other of Snow's films of this period, including Back and Forth (1969) and La Région Centrale (1971) similarly explored the mechanics of filmmaking to simultaneously investigate the functional processes of cinema and of thinking itself.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Snow, responding to a growing institutional commitment to his work, experimented more with large-scale installations, including public sculptures such as Flightstop (1979) and The Audience (1988-89). In recent years, he focused on the specific nature and potential of digital media, yielding works like the video-film *Corpus Callosum (2002). Regardless of artistic genre, Snow consistently engaged in an analytical discourse on the nature of consciousness and experience, language and temporality. He died on January 5th, 2023.
Detrás de Cámaras
Preludes
Director
*Corpus Callosum
Director, Escritor, Diseño de Producción
Wavelength
Director, Escritor, Productor, Dir. de Fotografía, Editor
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Director
For Life, Against the War
Director
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
Thanks
La région centrale
Director, Productor, Editor, Diseñador de Sonido
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
Director, Escritor
Presents
Director
Prelude
Director
New York Eye and Ear Control
Director
Breakfast (Table-Top Dolly)
Director
Standard Time
Director
So Is This
Director, Escritor
Sshtoorrty
Director, Escritor
A to Z
Director
Cityscape
Director
Reverberlin
Director
WVLNT
Director
Cloister
Sound
To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror
Director
One Second in Montreal
Director
Triage
Director
Little Walk
Director
Waivelength
Director
Seated Figures
Director
Short Shave
Director
Two Sides to Every Story
Director
Puccini Conservato
Director
Como Actor/Actriz
Cinématon
N°44
Birth of a Nation
Self
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Self
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Himself
Home Movies 1971-81
The Stone Age
Aristotle
La vie rêvée
Man walking in the street (uncredited)
Toronto Jazz
Himself
EXPRMNTL
Himself
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
Wilma Schoen
Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia)
Narrator
L’œil omnidirectionnel de Michael Snow
Himself
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
The Whistler / The Trumpeter / Man at the Table / ... (voice)
Bill's Hat
Snowblind
Snow Business
Himself
Manual of Arms
A Lecture
Narrator
Portrait of Snow
Himself
Michael Snow Up Close
Himself
Michael Snow Portrait
Short Shave
Snow In Vienna
Himself - Composer
Cinématon n°44 : Michael Snow