Direction: Michael Snow

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Michael Snow. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


*Corpus Callosum

2002 · Movie · 92 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Cast Jacqueline Anderson · Berj Bannayan · Greg Hermanovic · John Massey

Plot "*Corpus Callosum" is simultaneously static and elastic. Though Michael Snow credits a cast, he really uses his actors like action figures and deploys postproduction technology to stretch their forms and...

7.4

25 votes

7.4

25 votes

So Is This

1982 · Documentary · 84 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Plot “A silent film of 45 minutes consisting of single words of this script or score placed on the screen one by one, one after another, for specific lengths of time…...

7.2

48 votes

7.2

48 votes

Back and Forth <--->

1969 · Movie · 52 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Cast Allan Kaprow · Emmett Williams · Max Neuhaus · Joyce Wieland

Plot "This neat, finely tuned, hypersensitive film examines the outside and inside of a banal prefab classroom, stares at an asymmetrical space so undistinguished that it's hard to believe the whole...

6.9

52 votes

6.9

52 votes

La région centrale

1971 · Documentary · 180 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Plot Entirely shot using a robotized camera set on the top of a mountain in the Canadian wilderness - in winter. The camera was mounted on a mechanical arm that could...

6.9

161 votes

6.9

161 votes

Sshtoorrty (S)

2005 · Movie · 20 min. · Canada

6.1

30 votes

6.1

30 votes

Wavelength

1967 · Movie · 47 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Cast Hollis Frampton · Lyne Grossman · Naoto Nakazawa · Roswell Rudd

Plot Viewed from its basic concept, this is a purely formal film: it consists of a single, 45-minute-long tracking shot through the length of a room, accompanied by slowly-increasing sine tones...

6.0

383 votes

6.0

383 votes

One Second in Montreal (S)

1969 · Documentary · 17 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Plot Silent succession of black and white photographs reflecting nearly empty streets from the city of Montreal (Canada).

5.7

34 votes

5.7

34 votes

Dripping Water (S)

1969 · Documentary · 12 min. · Canada

5.6

35 votes

5.6

35 votes

For Life, Against the War

1967 · Documentary · 150 min. · United States

Direction Maurice Amor · Karl Bissenger · Tom Bissenger · Abbe Borov

Plot A political activism compilation film made by splicing together a series of clips centered around the Vietnam War by a number of different filmmakers.

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Breakfast (Table Top Dolly) (S)

1976 · Documentary · 15 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Plot Responds to Wavelength - as the forward motion of the camera destroys a crammed breakfast table.

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Presents

1981 · Documentary · 99 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Plot An investigation into representation, process and material and the nature of camera movement.

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Puccini Conservato (S)

2008 · Documentary · 10 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Plot Puccini Conservato uses a CD, a sound recording of Puccini's music (La Bohème). The sound source (the speakers), in a continuous manual displacement (guided by the music), is interspersed with...

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WVLNT: Wavelength For Those Who Don't Have The Time (S)

2003 · Documentary · 15 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Plot Michael Snow's film WAVELENGTH has been hailed as a classic of avant-garde cinema since its release in 1967. In February 2003, Snow created a new work consisting of simultaneous rather...

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A to Z (S)

1956 · Movie · 6 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Plot A cross-hatched family fantasy about nocturnal furniture love. Two chairs fuck.

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Seated Figures

1990 · Documentary · 42 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Plot Although Seated Figures is characteristically confined by a specific placement of the camera — in this case, fixed to the rear of a pickup truck and aimed at the ground...

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See you later (S)

1990 · Documentary · 18 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Cast Michael Snow

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New York Eye and Ear Control

1964 · Documentary · 34 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Cast Don Cherry · Albert Ayler · Gary Peacock · Sunny Murray

Plot A cutout of a woman's silhouette is shown in several places while listening to a free jazz soundtrack: the eponymous album composed improvised for the film. The jazz musicians, including...

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Cityscape (S)

2019 · Documentary · 10 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Snow

Plot The cityscape of downtown Toronto is shown through a variety of complex camera movements.

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