- Born
- Died
- Birth nameMichael James Aleck Snow
- 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 The Central Region (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.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Daniel Yates <kamerad76@hotmail.com>
- SpousesPeggy Gale(April 12, 1990 - January 5, 2023) (his death, 1 child)Joyce Wieland(September 1956 - 1976) (divorced)
- ChildrenAlexander Snow,
- ParentsGerald Bradley SnowMarie-Antoinette Françoise Carmen Lévesque
- RelativesElzéar Lévesque,(Grandparent)James Beaty Jr(Great Grandparent)
- Education: Ontario College of Art (design)
- He was awarded the O.C. (Officer of the Order of Canada) on June 22, 1981 for his services to the Visual Arts in Canada.
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Long time friend of Pierre Théberge , director of the National Gallery of Canada (1998-2009) and before of Montréal's Museum of Fine Arts.
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