Filmmakers

Michael Snow

Birth: Dec. 10, 1929 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

Official Website: None

Major Works: *Corpus Callosum (2002)
See You Later (1990)
So Is This (1982)
Two Sides to Every Story (1974)
<—> (1969)
Wavelength (1967)
New York Eye and Ear Control (1964)

Notes: Is also an accomplished musician, painter and sculptor.

Designed the massive “The Audience” sculptures that adorn two entrances to the Toronto SkyDome, now known as the Rogers Centre.

Other Resources: IMDB: Profile
Wikipedia: Profile
Jonathan Rosenbaum: Interview
Off Screen: Dossier
Maya Stendhal Gallery: Autobiography
Girish: Retrospective Review

Film Books About Michael Snow:
The Essential Cinema: Essays on the films in the collection of Anthology Film Archives, Volume One, ed. P. Adams Sitney. (New York University Press and Anthology Film Archives, 1975) (Chapter 11: Michael Snow’s Cinema (Wavelength, <——>, The Central Region), P. Adams Sitney, pp. 219-229.)

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Underground Film Feedback (3 Notes)

  1. [...] at Brown University, where I was exposed to a ton of underground/experimental films — from Michael Snow to Leslie Thornton to Jon Moritsugu. After a short time selling women’s handbags at a [...]

    Posted by Interview With Filmmaker Joshua Brown | Bad Lit | November 13, 2008, 6:01 am

  2. [...] We didn’t learn about the “underground,” and while I remember hearing about Michael Snow’s Wavelength, for example, in a classroom, we weren’t really specifically taught things [...]

    Posted by Skip Battaglia: Parataxis | Bad Lit | April 17, 2010, 10:02 pm

  3. [...] Michael Snow: Wavelength, 1967 <—->, 1969 La Region Centrale, 1970-71 (The Central Region) [...]

    Posted by Anthology Film Archives’ Essential Cinema Repertory Collection | Bad Lit | May 3, 2010, 8:08 am

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