Michael Snow Movies

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

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.

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

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

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

Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World belongs to a 35-hour film cycle, The Book of All the Dead, which comprises the bulk of Toronto-based Bruce...

"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...

Panning shot of a room while a group of people discusses film while eating at a table.

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...

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second...

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

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

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

English and French words flash individually over a black background.

A cutout of a woman's silhouette is displayed in many locations while a free jazz soundtrack is heard. The jazz musicians later pose for the camera...