Wavelength (1967 film)
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Wavelength is a 1967 Canadian-American short subject by experimental filmmaker and artist Michael Snow. 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 | |
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Directed by | Michael Snow |
Written by | Michael Snow |
Starring | Hollis Frampton Roswell Rudd Amy Taubin Joyce Wieland Amy Yadrin |
Cinematography | Michael Snow |
Edited by | Michael Snow |
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Running time | 45 minutes |
Countries | Canada United States |
Language | English |
Wavelength is often listed as one of the greatest underground, art house and Canadian films ever made. It was named #85 in the 2001 Village Voice critics' list of the 100 Best Films of the 20th Century.[5] The film has been designated and preserved as a masterwork by the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada.[6] 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."[7]