Michael Snow : Wavelength / Elizabeth Legge.

Main entry:

Legge, Elizabeth M.

Title & Author:

Michael Snow : Wavelength / Elizabeth Legge.

Publication:

London : Afterall Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, 2009.

Description:

93 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.

Series:

One work series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.

Summary:

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.").

ISBN:

9781846380563
1846380561
9781846380556 (cloth)
1846380553 (cloth)

Subject:

Snow, Michael, 1928-2023 Criticism and interpretation.
Snow, Michael, 1928-2023 Critique et interprétation.
Snow, Michael, 1928-
Snow, Michael 1928-2023
Wavelength (Motion picture)
Wavelength Film
Dreharbeit
Essay

Form/genre:

Experimental films.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Films expérimentaux.

Added entries:

One work.

Wavelength

Holdings:

Location: Library main 264655
Call No.: BIB 196107
Status: Available

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