Michael Snow
(B. 1929 Toronto, Canada // D. Toronto, Canada, 2023)- Video Fields, 2015
- In the Way, 2011
- The corner of Braque and Picasso Streets, 2009
- Condensation-A Cove Story, 2008
- Puccini Conservato, 2008
- Reverberlin, 2007
- Triage_April 22 (with Carl Brown and John Kamevaar), 2005
- SSHTOORRTY, 2005
- Line drawing with Synapse, 2003
- Solar Breath (Northern Caryatids), 2002
- Corpus Callosum, 2002
- Prelude, 2000
- Sheeploop, 2000
- The living room, 2000
- La Ferme, 1998
- Place des peaux, 1998
- VUEEUV, 1998
- See you later / Au revoir, 1990
- Seated Figures, 1988
- So Is This, 1982
- Presents, 1981
- Hearing Aid, 1977-1976
- Cover to cover, 1975
- ‘Rameau´s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanks to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen, 1974
- Two sides to every story, 1974
- Observer, 1974
- La Région Centrale, 1971
- Slidelength, 1969-1971
- Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film, 1970
- A casting shelved, 1970
- <--> (back and forth), 1969
- Sink, 1969
- Wavelength, 1967
- New York Eye and Ear Control, 1964
- Little walk, 1964
Seated Figures, 1988
16 mm, color, sound, 50 min.
ENG
Seated Figures is a 40-minute consideration of a landscape from the perspective of a pipe. The artist appears to have bolted his camera, lens down, to a metal arm extending off the back of a truck ... then driven over asphalt and dirt roads, out to the beach, along a riverbed, and through a field of daisies. Although hypnotic, the movement is not continuous. The vehicle stops, reverses direction, then accelerates to produce a diagonally striated force field. It juxtaposes our seated, static figures against a constantly moving ground.
CAST
Seated Figures es una observación de 40 minutos de un paisaje desde el punto de vista de un tubo. El artista parece haber atado su cámara, con el objetivo apuntando abajo, a la extensión ulterior de un camión. Luego el camión conduce sobre carreteras de asfalto, calles no pavimentadas, en la playa, a lado de un meandro y un campo de margaritas. El resultado es hipnótico, aunque el movimiento no es para nada continuo. El vehículo para, se pone en reversa y se accelera para producir un campo de fuerza diagonalmente estriado. Se yuxtapone con nuestras figuras sentadas e invariables contra un suelo en movimiento constante
Still from Seated Figures