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Image: Coconut/Cane & Cutlass (1994) by Michelle Mohabeer

dir. Michael Snow

270 min

Canada

1974

 

Each of Michael Snow's works, spanning across painting, sculpture, video, film, photography, holography, drawing, publishing and music, invites us to experience, question and contemplate the representation, its process and material. Rameau's Nephew by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen illustrates his research both in the visual arts and in sound: For me, it is an authentic 'talking picture,' built from the true units of the syllable and the frame. All the possible image/sound relationships centering around people and speech generate the movie-audience relationships: a wide range of emotional possibilities; the experience of seeing/hearing this film. 'Speech,' 'Language,' 'Culture' - their sources, their nature... recorded, imaged, prove (?) that in this case a word is worth 1000 pictures.

 

"Michael Snow's Rameau's Nephew Etc. makes me crazy, makes the top of my head go flying off. I have a need of its particular regenerative insanity at least once a month."

—Amy Taubin, The Soho Weekly News, 1977

 

Published with support by the Ministère de la culture et de la communication, Délégation aux arts plastiques, CNAP (FIACRE).

 

Photos: Jeff Guess

 

This box contains:

  • the 266-minute film on two DVDs
  • a 184-page bilingual book by Ivora Cusack and Stéfani de Loppinot, prefaced by Michael Snow and translated by Pip Chodorov, analyzing the 25 sequences of the film and making available for the first time reproductions of Snow's original preparatory scripts and notes archived at the Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto (Canada)

Rameau’s Nephew by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen

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  • Author(s)
    Micheal Snow, Ivora Cusak, Stéfani de Loppinot

     

    Artist(s)
    Micheal Snow

     

    Format
    DVD PAL Region Free, paperback book

     

    Year
    2012

     

    Runtime
    266 min

     

    Pages
    184 pages

     

    Language
    English

     

    Publisher
    Re:Voir Video

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