Michael Snow Movies

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...

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

Portrait of Michael Snow

This is an interesting little documentary about the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, which was apparently one of the global hotbeds of...

To Lavoisier Who Died in the Reign of Terror (1991) is a collaboration with filmmaker Carl Brown, who specializes in homebrewed chemical film...

Experimental short in which a camera pans quickly in a small apartment space; Disembodied voices speak of audience engagement.

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...

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

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...

"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.

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

Michael Snow's 1970 film A Casing Shelved combines a projection of a 35mm slide showing a bookcase in Snow's studio with a tape-recorded narration by...

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

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

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.

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

A cross-hatched fantasy about nocturnal furniture love.

Hand processed 35mm portrait of Michael Snow.