Michael Snow Movies

  • 1979
    Cinématon V

    Cinématon V

    Cinématon V

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

    Cinématon V
  • 1963
    Toronto Jazz

    Toronto Jazz

    Toronto Jazz

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    Toronto is regarded as the third largest jazz centre in North America. This film features a cross-section of jazz bands of that city: the Lenny Breau...

    Toronto Jazz
  • 1996
    Michael Snow Up Close

    Michael Snow Up Close

    Michael Snow Up Close

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

    Michael Snow Up Close
  • 2005
    Sshtoorrty

    Sshtoorrty

    Sshtoorrty

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    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...

    Sshtoorrty
  • 1969
    Seminar

    Seminar

    Seminar

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    An unreleased diary film shot during the Fairleigh-Dickinson Artist Seminar simultaneous to the production of Back and Forth by Michael Snow.

    Seminar
  • 2016
    Portrait of Snow

    Portrait of Snow

    Portrait of Snow

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

    Portrait of Snow
  • 1982
    So Is This

    So Is This

    So Is This

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    English and French words flash individually over a black background.

    So Is This
  • 1970
    A Casing Shelved

    A Casing Shelved

    A Casing Shelved

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    Michael Snow's 1970 film A Casing Shelved combines a projection of a 35mm slide showing a bookcase in Snow's studio with a tape-recorded narration by...

    A Casing Shelved
  • 1981
    Presents

    Presents

    Presents

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    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...

    Presents
  • 2019
    Cityscape

    Cityscape

    Cityscape

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

    Cityscape
  • 1967
    Standard Time

    Standard Time

    Standard Time

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    Experimental short in which a camera pans quickly in a small apartment space; Disembodied voices speak of audience engagement.

    Standard Time
  • 1974
    Two Sides to Every Story

    Two Sides to Every Story

    Two Sides to Every Story

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    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...

    Two Sides to Every Story
  • 1987
    I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art

    I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art

    I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art

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

    I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art
  • 2019
    L’œil omnidirectionnel de Michael Snow

    L’œil omnidirectionnel de Michael Snow

    L’œil omnidirectionnel de Michael Snow

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

    L’œil omnidirectionnel de Michael Snow
  • 1990
    See You Later

    See You Later

    See You Later

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    A man (Snow himself) rises from his desk, puts on his scarf and coat, says goodbye to a woman typing at a nearby desk, and leaves the room.

    See You Later
  • 1985
    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

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    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...

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
  • 1969
    Dripping Water

    Dripping Water

    Dripping Water

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    You see nothing but a white, crystal white plate, and water dripping into the plate, and you hear the sound of the water dripping. The film is ten...

    Dripping Water
  • 1983
    Funnel Piano

    Funnel Piano

    Funnel Piano

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    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...

    Funnel Piano
  • 1964
    Little Walk

    Little Walk

    Little Walk

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

    Little Walk
  • 1968
    A Lecture

    A Lecture

    A Lecture

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

    A Lecture