Michael Snow

Michael Snow , born in 1929 with Toronto (Ontario), is a painter, a Sculpteur, a Cinéaste, a stimulating and a pianist of Canadian Jazz . It is as known for films of Animation as it conceived.

Biography

In the Années 1950, it studies the Peinture and the Sculpture, but it is by animation that it will take its first step with the cinema.

It continues painting and tries out there the concepts of framework and Bi-dimensionnalité. In 1956, Snow signs its first cartoon film exposure with has to Z , which it describes as “two chairs kiss”. It will direct then the majority of its video work towards the slow exploration of physical and temporal space through a design of the cinema like subject even of the cinema.

In 1967, Michael Snow obtains the Grand Prix of the fourth International festival of experimental Film of Knokke-le-Zoute for the film Wavelength (a Zoom before 45 minutes in a workshop until a photo black and white of waves. Progressively, the spectator hears an increasingly acute synthetic sound.)

Standard Time (1967) is based on a circular Panoramique and Back and Forth (1969) is rate/rhythm by alternation panoramic horizontal and vertical ones.

In the central Area (1970-1971), the camera, freer, at variable speeds, sweeps in a circular way or draws spirals in a desert.

The scenario writer works also the duration and the contemplation of a fixed space. For example in Branch' S Nephew by Diderot (1974)

These experiments will influence deeply the Cinéaste Chantal Akerman.

Catalog of films

like realizer

  • 1956 : has to Z
  • 1964: New York Eye and Ear Control
  • 1965: Shorts Shave
  • 1967: Wavelength
  • 1967 : Standard Time
  • 1969: One Second in Montreal
  • 1969: Dripping Toilets
  • 1969: Back and Forth
  • 1970 : Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film
  • 1971: the central Area
  • 1974: Two Sides to Every Story
  • 1974 : “Rameau' S Nephew” by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
  • 1976: Breakfast (Table Signal Dolly)
  • 1981: Present
  • 1982: So Is This
  • 1988 : Seated Figures
  • 1990: See You Later
  • 1991 : To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign off Terror
  • 2000: Prelude
  • 2000: The Living room Room
  • 2002: *Corpus Callosum

as assembler

as director of the photography

as scenario writer

as producer

  • 1967 : Wavelength
  • 1971 : the central Area
  • 1974: “Rameau' S Nephew” by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
  • 1988: Seated Figures

as type-setter

as actor

  • 1971 : Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia : Narrator

Honors

External bonds

  • Biography

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