Michael Snow
Michael Snow (1928-2023) is one of the great figures of the contemporary Canadian art world. Throughout his prolific career, he has worked in many media: film, photography, music, books, video, sculpture, sound, painting, drawing, holography... His visual artworks representing time and space with innovative ways are widely collected and exhibited around the world. His experimental film Wavelength (1967) is notable for its slow, 45-minute zoom. Other important films include La région centrale (1971), made with a mechanical arm that allowed the camera to rotate in all directions and at different speeds. Snow has also been a professional musician since the 1950s and has concentrated on free improvisation for thirty years. He has performed in Canada, the United States, Europe and Japan and has made numerous recordings. He was married to the great Canadian multidisciplinary artist Joyce Wieland.
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WVLNT : Wavelength for Those Who Don’t Have the Time
WVLNT : Wavelength for Those Who Don’t Have the Time
Duration: 30 minutesIn 1967, Michael Snow made _Wavelength_, a film that captured the attention of audiences and critics with its formality, its soundtrack and its long-drawn-out traversing of a space. It became a classic of avant-garde filmmaking. Thirty-six years later, Snow created a new work by digitizing the original material and proposing simultaneities rather than the sequential progressions of the first fi...
WVLNT : Wavelength for Those Who Don’t Have the Time
WVLNT : Wavelength for Those Who Don’t Have the Time
Duration: 30 minutesIn 1967, Michael Snow made _Wavelength_, a film that captured the attention of audiences and critics with its formality, its soundtrack and its long-drawn-out traversing of a space. It became a classic of avant-garde filmmaking. Thirty-six years later, Snow created a new work by digitizing the original material and proposing simultaneities rather than the sequential progressions of the first fi...
