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Doors 7pm / Show 7:30pm
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Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque at The Lab

I am not a professional. My paintings are done by a filmmaker, sculpture by a musician, films by a painter, music by a filmmaker, films by a musician, music by a sculptor… sometimes they all work together. Also many of my paintings have been done by a painter, sculpture by sculptor, films by a filmmaker, music by a musician.

— Michael Snow, 1967

An artist known for confounding intermedia work virtually every medium, Toronto-born Michael Snow (1928–2023) was a hugely influential filmmaker—his 1967 film Wavelength stands as a foundational work of avant-garde cinema, a temporal monument in film history, an epic consideration of film form. Widely discussed and historicized yet rarely screened in public, the film—succinctly summarized as a slowly-creeping camera zoom across a New York loft—”a room in which a dozen businesses have lived and gone bankrupt”*—punctuated by (and ignoring) human events. Much more than mere minimalist gesture or provocative put-on, in-person viewings of Wavelength provide cinematic experiences variously and simultaneously meditative, kinetic and sonically visceral.

This evening’s presentation of Wavelength will be preceded by a lesser-known 1967 room film Standard Time and the sumptuously slow motion film/video hybrid See You Later/Au Revoir (1990). (Steve Polta)