michael snow

in a class in college i saw a short excerpt of la region centrale, and it was incredible. another pan, this time over a large rock formation. the detail was mesmerizing but i've never seen the full 3-hour version.

A lot of people have complained that Snow "cheated" with Wavelength as the whole thing wasn't done just with one camera and a zoom lens in one continuous shot, apparently. Also I hear that Snow has put together something like Wavelength 2.0 where the zoom is twice as fast. For all the solemnity of his work Snow himself seems like a pretty silly guy.

Is it available somewhere? Anywhere?

i have also seen the full "la region centrale". it did something to me but i don't know what.

It's so clearly not meant to be one continuous shot!

Finally saw this tonight, and it was great. I'd heard about it for years, but it turns out to be very different from what I thought it was going to be. Such as, I thought it was one long slow continuous zoom, and didn't realize it was all about the interruptions in the zoom, that it was filmed (and "takes place") over six days, and that it was really about the intersections of waves.

They also showed the first reel (45 minutes) of La Region Centrale and it was soooo frustrating. It was just starting to get good when poof, it was over. And if I ever get a chance to watch it again I'm going to have to get through that first thirty minute slow warm-up again, even though now I "know" what "happens".

On the other hand I saw it in a room full of students who really weren't into the film. That wasn't so great either.

Anyway, I would like an avi of Wavelength now. Please.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/incinemas/nft/film/6365

"la region centrale" playing in NY tomw. i guess i have to go? how many snacks?

i am usually looking for excuses whenever demanding films are playing, reasons not to get to at berkeley when it's showing in town, so along those lines - did you see the argentinian season at anthology, morbs? looks pretty juicy.

nb i am bring no info to the table re: snow/snacks.

upcoming? i am drowning in schedules.

yeah, it's this. extraordinary stories is the deluxe, long-ass kind of unmissable thing (i hear), but the preces for the really recent things all sound great, & the rep screenings are all rare. i feel like i was digging for pineiroites elsewhere but i was pretty thrilled by his viola.

oh i've seen Extraordinary Stories, yeah, a few Pineiros too

also it's cheaper to watch the World Series than to go to all of those, as i do not have a membership at Anthology.

well that was a ... trip. More a fugue state than hypnosis, perhaps. I'd say about 2/3 of the audience stayed.

Series just started here:

http://tiff.net/winter2015-cinematheque/wysiwyg-the-films-of-michael-snow

I've seen Wavelength and New York Eye & Ear Control; will make an effort to get out to La Région Centrale. (It's on a Thursday and free, so I'm not sure I'll be able to get downtown early enough to get a ticket--and if I do, whether I can stay awake for three hours during the week.)

Just ordered a couple of tickets for this:

https://ago.ca/events/michael-snow-celebration-life

Awesome. I went to the memorial and it was fantastic, not in the least because of a CCMC performance. The work-in-progress doc on Snow looked fantastic, too, the footage that was shown. The pre-free improv footage of his time as a “bop heavy” was astonishing

I'm sure you've seen New York Eye and Ear Control with Albert Ayler and all the jazz guys--if not, you should.

saw wavelength at tiff last winter. quality harsh noise set

Didn't know he made a narrative film

https://ica.art/sshtoorrty-corpus-callosum

Went to this. Corpus was kind of funny, silly, and quite surrealist, plenty of video effects that distort the image like you are looking at a Dali. Not what I was expecting from the guy who made Wavelength.

'sshtoorrty' was one roughly two min scene looped with the sequence of events pitch shifted by a few secs, so about 10-15 repetitions. It was fine, as these things go, but a bit creaky oldy avant garde.

was also there. lots of ideas and some laughs (did wonder if tim and eric ever saw it) but not sure I'd ever want to watch again. la region centrale on the other hand was an incredible experience. glad I waited all these years to see it on 16mm.

Couldn't get to it.unfortunately.

Lovely to see the ICA nearly packed.

it = La Region Centrale

la region centrale was a little thinner on the ground, which is understandable. but yeah good to see, programming over the last year has been really great. heard whispers that they are expensive prints so ica wouldn't have been able to justify it without the money coming externally. possibly why it's been so long since they were shown.

Yes, over the last yr I have seen some fine restorations of Edward Yang and Jacques Rivette films, as well as quite a bit from the Duras season.

Looking forward to the Rivette season (booked one film already and hopefully catching a few more)