Michael Snow Movies

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

Wavelength consists of almost no action, and what action does occur is largely elided. If the film could be said to have a conventional plot, this...

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

Michael Snow narrates a series of Hollis Frampton's photographs (speaking as Frampton, in the first person)—as each picture catches fire on a...

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

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...

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

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...

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

In this "fourteen-part drill for the camera," Frampton created a portrait gallery of his art-world friends engaging in a variety of ordinary...

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

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...