
迈克尔·斯诺 (1928) Michael Snow
导演 剪辑 摄影 编剧 制片人
Central figure of the American avant-garde. An artist who made an
isolated animated short, A to Z (1956), Snow concentrated on his painting
career until moving to New York in 1963. After attending avant-garde
film screenings organized by critic-filmmaker Jonas Mekas and turning out a
second film, the formalist New York Eye and Ear Control (1972), he made the highly influential
Wavelength (1967). WAVELENGTH consists of a 45-minute zoom across a
loft--interruped at several points by a cryptic narrative involving a
murder--which ends on a close-up of a photograph of ocean waves. The
film quickly earned a reputation in international avant-garde circles
and inspired a generation of structuralist filmmakers. It was the first
in a series of Snow's works which reduce the film medium to one of its
most basic elements--camera movement: Standard Time (1967) is made up of 360-degree
pans; in _Back and Forth (1969)_, the camera moves backwards and forwards at varying
speeds, recording events in a classroom; in La région centrale (1971), Snow's
remote-controlled camera, mounted on a tripod in the middle of the
Quebec tundra, executes 360 degree rotations in three different
circular patterns (at various speeds) while zooming in and out.