| Wavelength | |
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&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Wavelength_(1967)_wide_shot.jpg) A still of the loft from Wavelength | |
| Directed by | Michael Snow |
| Written by | Michael Snow |
| Starring | Hollis Frampton Roswell Rudd Amy Taubin Joyce Wieland |
| Cinematography | Michael Snow |
| Edited by | Michael Snow |
| Music by | Ted Wolff |
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Running time | 45 minutes |
| Countries | Canada United States |
| Language | English |
Wavelength is a 1967 experimental film by Canadian artist Michael Snow. Shot from a fixed camera angle, it depicts a loft space with an extended zoom over the duration of the film. Considered a landmark of avant-garde cinema,[1] it was filmed over one week in December 1966 and edited in 1967,[2] and is an example of what film theorist P. Adams Sitney describes as "structural film",[3] calling Snow "the dean of structural filmmakers."[4]
Wavelength is often listed as one of the greatest underground, art house and Canadian films ever made. The film has been designated and preserved as a masterwork by the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada.[5] In a 1969 review of the film published in Artforum, Manny Farber describes Wavelength as "a singularly unpadded, uncomplicated, deadly realistic way to film three walls, a ceiling and a floor... it is probably the most rigorously composed movie in existence."[6]
- ^ MacDonald, Scott (1985). "So Is This". Film Quarterly. 39 (1): 34–37. doi:10.2307/1212281. JSTOR 1212281.
- ^ Sitney 1979, p. 375.
- ^ Sitney 1979, pp. 368–397.
- ^ Sitney 1979, p. 374.
- ^ "Trust Blog".
- ^ Reprinted in Manny Farber, Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies, London: Studio Vista, 1971, p. 250