Michael Snow
Subtitle: Wavelength
By: Elizabeth Legge
Series: One work series
Publisher: Afterall Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
ISBN-13: 9781846380563
Subjects: Experimental films; Wavelength (Motion picture)
Other titles: Wavelength
Description: In this illustrated study, Elizabeth Legge describes Wavelength as a film of virtuosically managed tensions, sensuous beauty, subtle light and color, and recession into perspectival depth. At the same time, she points out, it is also austere: the loft space where the action unfolds could be the last clerical outpost of a defunct business. The zoom is punctuated by what Snow laconically called "4 human events": a woman directs two men who carry in a bookcase and place it against the left wall of the room; two women come in and listen to the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields" on the radio; a man briefly appears after protracted crashing and glass-breaking noises, wheels around, and drops dead; a young woman comes into the room and makes a frightened telephone call reporting the dead man ("And he doesn't look drunk, he looks dead.").
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Mode of access: Internet.