Michael Snow Movies

Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World belongs to a 35-hour film cycle, The Book of All the Dead, which comprises the bulk of Toronto-based Bruce...

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

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

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...

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...

This is an interesting little documentary about the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, which was apparently one of the global hotbeds of...

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

This performance piece by filmmaker Hollis Frampton, recorded in 1968 in New York City, features the voice of artist Michael Snow. Frampton would...

A new performance that reworks the 1967 film’s sine wave soundtrack into a new composition distributed across multiple channels of sound in...

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

English and French words flash individually over a black background.

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

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

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

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

Using concert footage of the free-improvisation ensemble he co-founded in 1974, Snow digitally weaves together images and sounds from performances...

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

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

A rare film shot in Super 8 by Michael Snow in 1984 that is almost unseen: an exercise in improvisation in which Snow plays the piano with one hand...

MICHAEL SNOW UP CLOSE was produced on the occasion of The Michael Snow Project, a major, career-spanning, multi-venue retrospective of the artist....