Jonas Mekas wrote:
You see nothing but a white, crystal white plate, and water dripping into the plate, from the ceiling, from high, and you hear the sound of the water dripping. The film is ten minutes long. I can imagine only St. Francis looking at a water plate and water dripping so lovingly, so respectfully, so serenely. The usual reaction is: ‘Oh, what is it anyhow? Just a plate of water dripping.’ But that is a snob remark. That remark has no love for the world, for anything. Snow and Wieland’s film uplifts the object, and leaves the viewer with a finer attitude toward the world around him; it can open his eyes to the phenomenal world. And how can you love people if you don’t love water, stone , glass?

Joyce Wieland, Michael Snow - 1969 - Dripping Water [DVD-NTSC].mkv

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The post Joyce Wieland & Michael Snow – Dripping Water (1969) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis
Consisting of 25 sections, each segment is a meditation–often comic–about the nature of recorded sound, both abstract and representational, about the many possible kinds of audiovisual relationships, and about their philosophical implications.

MUBI’s Take:- Canadian film titan Michael Snow pulls out all the stops in this epic, playful experiment in language and representation, exploring the myriad possibilities of sound and image. Featuring the crème-de-la-crème of the avant-garde art world, Snow called it a “musical comedy”—and trust us, it’s funny!

Rameaus.Nephew.by.Diderot.Thanx.to.Dennis.Young.by.Wilma.Schoen.1974.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.x264-traVis.mkv

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Runtime: 	4 h 15 min
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Language(s):English | French | German | Italian | Japanese
Subtitles:English (For English dialogues only)

The post Michael Snow – ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1974) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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«La Région Centrale» was made during five days of shooting on a deserted mountain top in North Quebec. During the shooting, the vertical and horizontal alignment as well as the tracking speed were all determined by the camera’s settings. Anchored to a tripod, the camera turned a complete 360 degrees, craned itself skyward, and circled in all directions. Because of the unconventional camera movement, the result was more than merely a film that documented the film location’s landscape. Surpassing that, this became a film expressing as its themes the cosmic relationships of space and time. Cataloged here were the raw images of a mountain existence, plunged (at that time) in its distance from civilization, embedded in cosmic cycles of light and darkness, warmth and cold.

8.76GB | 3h 12m | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/F3A446F9D60693E/La_Region_Centrale_(1971)_Reel_1.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/915A35E3D2B4F2C/La_Region_Centrale_(1971)_Reel_2.mkv

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The post Michael Snow – La région centrale (1971) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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“This neat, finely tuned, hypersensitive film examines the outside and inside of a banal prefab classroom, stares at an asymmetrical space so undistinguished that it’s hard to believe the whole movie is confined to it, and has this neck-jerking camera gimmick that hits a wooden stop arm at each end of its swing. Basically it’s a perpetual motion film that ingeniously builds a sculptural effect by insisting on time-motion to the point where the camera’s swinging arcs and white wall field assume the hardness, the dimensions of a concrete beam. “In such a hard, drilling work, the wooden clap sounds are a terrific invention, and, as much as any single element, create the sculpture. Seeming to thrust the image outward off the screen, these clap effects are timed like a metronome, sometimes occurring with torrential frequency.” – Manny Farber, Artforum, 1970

684MB | 51m 38s | 692×472 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/78DFBE458D20EA9/Back_and_Forth.mkv
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https://fikper.com/Qfl7XF1wEK/Back_and_Forth.mkv.html

Language:English
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The post Michael Snow – Back and Forth AKA <—> (1969) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The apparent vertical scratch in celluloid that opens Presents literally opens into a film within the film. When its figure awakens into a woman in a ‘real’ unreal set, the slapstick satire of structural film begins. It is not the camera that moves, but the whole set, in this first of three material ‘investigations’ of camera movement. In the second, the camera literally invades the set; a plexiglass sheet in front of the dolly crushes everything in its sight as it zooms through space. Finally, this monster of formalism pushes through the wall of the set and the film cuts to a series of rapidly edited shots as the camera zigzags over lines of force and moving fields of vision in an approximation of the eye in nature. Snow pushes us into acceptance of present moments of vision, but the single drum beat that coincides with each edit in this elegaic section announces each moment of life’s irreversible disappearance.

2.41GB | 1h 38m | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/CFFC2AA944CE8CF/Presents.1981.Michael.Snow.576p.BluRay.DD2.0.x264.mkv

Language:English
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The post Michael Snow – Presents (1981) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Cityscape elaborates on the methods Snow used in the making of his ground-breaking 360-degree film La Région Centrale (1971). Taking the advice of his long-time friend, Graeme Ferguson, to produce it as an Imax film, Snow orchestrates new patterns of movement that exchanges the focus on landscape in La Région Centrale with the cityscape of Toronto.

218MB | 8m 27s | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/64B96861E7DDA5D/Cityscape_(Michael_Snow,_2019).mkv

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The post Michael Snow – Cityscape (2019) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Puccini Conservato was commissioned by the Lucca Film Festival for the 150th anniversary of the famous Italian composer’s birth. In this delightful video, the Canadian master offers a witty visual and sonic commentary to Puccini’s La Bohème.

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PUCCINI CONSERVATO uses a CD, a sound recording of some Puccini music (from LA BOHÈME). The source of the sound (the loudspeakers) in a continuous hand-held panning (guided by the music), is intercut with shots of flowers or wood-fire, exemplifying the lyricism in Puccini’s music. By being a recording of a recording, the work proclaims the artificiality of the sound. However the beauty and humanity of the music comes through too.

370MB | 10m 06s | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/347D39D6BB14BC0/Puccini_Conservato.mkv

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The post Michael Snow – Puccini conservato (2008) first appeared on Cinema of the World.