Michael Snow Movies

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

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

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

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

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

English and French words flash individually over a black background.

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...

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...

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

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

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

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

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...

Portrait of Michael Snow

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

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...

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.

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

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