Michael Snow Movies

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...

"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...

A 1971 experimental Canadian film directed by Michael Snow. Shot in the Canadian mountains over a period of 24 hours using a robotic arm.

Portrait of Michael Snow

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

Watch slides of Michael Snow's paintings from the worst seat in the house.

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

Hand processed 35mm portrait of Michael Snow.

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

Exhausted by a sexually frustrating home life in the Bronx, portly, 65-year-old Uncle Bojo tosses aside all responsibilities, leaves his wife,...

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...

Solar Breath (2002) is a 62-minute loop of fluttering curtains that reveal and conceal an idyllic landscape in rural Newfoundland.

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

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

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

This performance piece by filmmaker Hollis Frampton, recorded in 1968 in New York City, features the voice of artist Michael Snow. Frampton would...

A cross-hatched fantasy about nocturnal furniture love.

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.

A rare film shot in Super 8 by Michael Snow in 1984 that is almost unseen: an exercise in improvisation in which Snow plays the piano with one hand...