Michael Snow Movies

Portrait of Michael Snow

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

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

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

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

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

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

English and French words flash individually over a black background.

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

A man (Snow himself) rises from his desk, puts on his scarf and coat, says goodbye to a woman typing at a nearby desk, and leaves the room.

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...

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

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

Exhausted by a sexually frustrating home life in the Bronx, portly, 65-year-old Uncle Bojo tosses aside all responsibilities, leaves his wife,...

A cross-hatched fantasy about nocturnal furniture love.

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

World renowned artist and filmmaker Michael Snow continues to push the boundaries of yet another field, music. The avant-garde greats mastery of...

Hand processed 35mm portrait of Michael Snow.

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...

This performance piece by filmmaker Hollis Frampton, recorded in 1968 in New York City, features the voice of artist Michael Snow. Frampton would...