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Wavelength

Wavelength

Michael Snow


  • Country: Canada
  • Year: 1967
  • Language: English
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  • Runtime: 45 min.

The great American film critic Manny Farber dubbed Michael Snow's avant-garde masterpiece "a pure, tough 45 minutes that may become the Birth of a Nation of Underground films".

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The great American film critic Manny Farber dubbed Michael Snow's avant-garde masterpiece "a pure, tough 45 minutes that may become the Birth of a Nation of Underground films." The prototype of the "structuralist" cinema that includes such exemplary artists as Ernie Gehr, Hollis Frampton and Morgan Fisher—and also the namesake of the Festival's annual programme of contemporary avant-garde cinema—Wavelength intently examines a deserted room through a progressive series of zooms and colour and audio sine waves, rendering the inanimate physical world inordinately powerful against the comparatively unimportant transience of human presence—in this coldly objective world, even a murder becomes merely another passing event. "Wavelength ranks among those films which force viewers, regardless of how they react, to carefully consider the essence of the medium and, just as unavoidably, reality" (Amos Vogel).

Thanks to CFMDC.

Our screening of Wavelength will be followed by an onstage discussion between Michael Snow and two other luminaries of the avant-garde, Annette Michelson and P. Adams Sitney.

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