Michael Snow
导演
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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.
相机背后
Wavelength
导演、作家、制片人、摄影指导、剪辑师
Preludes
导演
*Corpus Callosum
导演、编剧、制作设计
For Life, Against the War
导演
New York Eye and Ear Control
导演
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
谢谢
狄德罗的《拉莫的侄子》(感谢丹尼斯·杨)威尔玛·舍恩
导演、作家
Presents
导演
Cityscape
导演
Prelude
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Sshtoorrty
导演、作家
Seated Figures
导演
La région centrale
Director, Productor, Editor, Diseñador de Sonido
Cloister
声音
<–––>
导演
Short Shave
导演
One Second in Montreal
导演
这是Z
导演
Triage
导演
Two Sides to Every Story
导演
Reverberlin
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Waivelength
导演
Puccini Conservato
导演
Breakfast (Table-Top Dolly)
导演
WVLNT
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Standard Time
导演
To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror
导演
Little Walk
导演
So Is This
导演、作家
作为演员/演员
电影
N°44
Birth of a Nation
自己
日记、笔记和草图
自己
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
他自己
Bill's Hat
Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia)
旁白
La vie rêvée
Man walking in the street (uncredited)
The Stone Age
Aristotle
Snow Business
他自己
EXPRMNTL
他自己
Home Movies 1971-81
I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art
Michael Snow Up Close
他自己
Snow In Vienna
Himself - Composer
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
Wilma Schoen
Cyclopean 3D:与美丽女人的生活
狄德罗的《拉莫的侄子》(感谢丹尼斯·杨)威尔玛·舍恩
The Whistler / The Trumpeter / Man at the Table / ... (voice)
多伦多爵士乐
他自己
Portrait of Snow
他自己
Cinématon n°44 : Michael Snow
Short Shave
L’œil omnidirectionnel de Michael Snow
他自己
Michael Snow Portrait
Manual of Arms
A Lecture
旁白
Snowblind