Michael Snow Movies

  • 1956
    A to Z

    A to Z

    A to Z

    4.51956HD

    A cross-hatched fantasy about nocturnal furniture love.

    A to Z
  • 2005
    Sshtoorrty

    Sshtoorrty

    Sshtoorrty

    4.6672005HD

    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
  • 1983
    Funnel Piano

    Funnel Piano

    Funnel Piano

    01983HD

    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
  • 2019
    Waivelength

    Waivelength

    Waivelength

    02019HD

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

    Waivelength
  • 2006
    Reverberlin

    Reverberlin

    Reverberlin

    02006HD

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

    Reverberlin
  • 1989
    Cloister

    Cloister

    Cloister

    01989HD

    As the wheel turns, the religion of the body moves to and through the physical into the psychological. We see the feared, all is moved. There is a...

    Cloister
  • 1967
    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    61967HD

    First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

    For Life, Against the War
  • 2001
    The Living Room

    The Living Room

    The Living Room

    52001HD

    Zooming back from an image in close-up a brightly colored and kitschy room is revealed. Digitally manipulated objects and figures appear/disappear,...

    The Living Room
  • 1968
    Snowblind

    Snowblind

    Snowblind

    4.81968HD

    "Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of three historic montage styles, for three...

    Snowblind
  • 1969
    Dripping Water

    Dripping Water

    Dripping Water

    3.21969HD

    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
  • 1996
    Michael Snow Up Close

    Michael Snow Up Close

    Michael Snow Up Close

    61996HD

    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
  • 1969
    One Second in Montreal

    One Second in Montreal

    One Second in Montreal

    5.51969HD

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

    One Second in Montreal
  • 1976
    Breakfast (Table-Top Dolly)

    Breakfast (Table-Top Dolly)

    Breakfast (Table-Top Dolly)

    4.41976HD

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

    Breakfast (Table-Top Dolly)
  • 2011
    Michael Snow Portrait

    Michael Snow Portrait

    Michael Snow Portrait

    02011HD

    Hand processed 35mm portrait of Michael Snow.

    Michael Snow Portrait
  • 1970
    Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film

    Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film

    Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film

    01970HD

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

    Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film
  • 1970
    A Casing Shelved

    A Casing Shelved

    A Casing Shelved

    01970HD

    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
  • 2004
    Triage

    Triage

    Triage

    02004HD

    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...

    Triage
  • 2002
    Solar Breath

    Solar Breath

    Solar Breath

    32002HD

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

    Solar Breath
  • 1988
    Seated Figures

    Seated Figures

    Seated Figures

    01988HD

    Although Seated Figures is characteristically confined by a specific placement of the camera — in this case, fixed to the rear of a pickup...

    Seated Figures
  • 2009
    Puccini Conservato

    Puccini Conservato

    Puccini Conservato

    02009HD

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

    Puccini Conservato