Michael Snow Movies

"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.

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

Little Walk (1964) is Michael Snow’s first gallery film installation. It arrives as a diplomatic envoy from New York’s art and film...

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

English and French words flash individually over a black background.

Reel 5 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

"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...

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

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

A loop of two parts of a film, superimposed on top of one another, that concern a man who has arrived at the house of his lover and her husband to...

A cross-hatched fantasy about nocturnal furniture love.

Interview and profile of experimental filmmaker Michael Snow from 1983. Includes extracts from 'Back and Forth', 'Wavelength', 'La Region Central',...

Portrait of Michael Snow

A dual-projection film where each director made 30 minutes of film without knowledge of what the other was making. Snow's side is a visual...

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

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...

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

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

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...