Michael Snow Movies

  • 2000
    Prelude

    Prelude

    Prelude

    4.52000HD

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

    Prelude
  • 1985
    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

    7.21985HD

    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
  • 1978
    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

    81978HD

    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...

    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
  • 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
  • 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

    51987HD

    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
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    6.31997HD

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

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1972
    Dream Life

    Dream Life

    Dream Life

    41972HD

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

    Dream Life
  • 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
  • 1963
    Toronto Jazz

    Toronto Jazz

    Toronto Jazz

    61963HD

    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
  • 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
  • 1956
    A to Z

    A to Z

    A to Z

    4.51956HD

    A cross-hatched fantasy about nocturnal furniture love.

    A to Z
  • 1967
    Standard Time

    Standard Time

    Standard Time

    5.51967HD

    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

    101974HD

    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
  • 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
  • 2016
    EXPRMNTL

    EXPRMNTL

    EXPRMNTL

    02016HD

    Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second...

    EXPRMNTL
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    01985HD

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

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 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
  • 2019
    L’œil omnidirectionnel de Michael Snow

    L’œil omnidirectionnel de Michael Snow

    L’œil omnidirectionnel de Michael Snow

    02019HD

    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
  • 1970
    The Stone Age

    The Stone Age

    The Stone Age

    01970HD

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

    The Stone Age
  • 2016
    Portrait of Snow

    Portrait of Snow

    Portrait of Snow

    02016HD

    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