Michael Snow Movies

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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...

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

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

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

Wavelength consists of almost no action, and what action does occur is largely elided. If the film could be said to have a conventional plot, this...

Two twenty-something women dream of the ideal man and slowly realize that reality is very different from their fantasies.

"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante

"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my...

Michael Snow narrates a series of Hollis Frampton's photographs (speaking as Frampton, in the first person)—as each picture catches fire on a...

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

In this "fourteen-part drill for the camera," Frampton created a portrait gallery of his art-world friends engaging in a variety of ordinary...

Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of...

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 camera moves back and forth at an increasing pace. Back and forth, back and forth...

A serendipitous encounter with a younger artist gives legendary Canadian art icon Michael Snow the opportunity to reflect on his life and career.