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
Direction Michael Snow
Cast Mac Ebrahimzadeh · Ramin Eshraghi-Yazdi · Hilda Hashempour
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
Direction Michael Snow · Joyce Wieland
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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'Rameau's Nephew' by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
1974 · Documentary · 270 min. · Canada
Direction Michael Snow
Cast Joyce Wieland · Nam June Paik · Jonas Mekas
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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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To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror
1991 · Documentary · 52 min. · Canada
Direction Michael Snow
Cast Luigi Bianchi · Nancy Love · Steve McCallery · Bart 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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