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Wavelength

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Director: Michael Snow

Starring: Hollis Frampton, Lyne Grossman, Naoto Nakazawa, Roswell Rudd, Amy Taubin, Joyce Wieland, Amy Yadrin

Year: 1967

Runtime: 45 mins.

Synopsis: The film is a continuous zoom which takes 45 minutes to go from its widest field to its smallest and final field. It was shot with a fixed camera from one end of an 80 foot loft, shooting the other end, a row of windows and the street …. The room (and the zoom) are interrupted by four human events including a death. The sound on these occasions is sync sound, music and speech, occurring simultaneously with an electronic sound, a sine-wave …. It is a total glissando while the film is a crescendo and a dispersed spectrum which attempts to utilize the gifts of both prophecy and memory which only film and music have to offer. (from the Film-makers’ Cooperative)

DVD: None

Official Website: None

Reviews: All Movie (Tom Vick)
Raging Bull (Mike Lorefice)
Film Fanatic (unknown)
Hammer to Nail (Brandon Harris)

Video: None

Tags: 1967