Michael Snow Movies

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

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...

"Vanity. Had a beard. Appearance (looks). Looking. Disappearance act. Hand-made fades and zooms but camera made shave. Camerazor. Handsome. Tired....

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...

Puccini Conservato uses a CD, a sound recording of some Puccini music (from La Bohème). The source of the sound (the loudspeakers) in a...

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

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

A continuous zoom traverses the space of a breakfast table, serving as a grand metaphor for indigestion.

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

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

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

A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.

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

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

English and French words flash individually over a black background.

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

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

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...

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