Cinematheque . Film Schedule . WAVELENGTH & SSHTOORRTY
Film Classics in 16mm & 35mm! Michael Snow, 1928-2023
Canada | 1967/2005 | Michael Snow
We pay tribute to recently deceased Canadian artist and filmmaker Michael Snow with a pairing of his most famous movie (an avant-garde milestone made early in his career) and one of his late works. Wavelength (1967) features the most famous slow zoom in cinema history—a 45-min. drift across a room in NYC where some enigmatic human activity (including a murder) takes place. Filmmakers Hollis Frampton and Joyce Wieland and film critic Amy Taubin appear in it. Snow touted his 30-min. short SSHTOORRTY (2005) as his first “conventional” narrative. It concerns a woman, her husband, a painter, and a painting, but the story is rendered unconventional by being cut in half and the two halves superimposed on each other. The movie is also in Farsi with English subtitles, adding another layer of visual information. (The title is a blending of the words “short” and “story.”) 16mm/35mm. Total 75 min.
Special admission $13; members, CIA & CSU I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $10. No passes.
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General Admission: $12
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Additional film on the same day: $9 (or the member price for that film)
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