Wavelength——Michael Snow

Snow is considered one of the most influential experimental filmmakers and is the subject of retrospectives in many countries. In his 2002 Village Voice review of *Corpus Callosum, J. Hoberman writes: “Rigorously predicated on irreducible cinematic facts, Snow's structuralist epics—Wavelength and La Région Centrale—announced the imminent passing of the film era. Rich with new possibilities, *Corpus Callosum heralds the advent of the next. Whatever it is, it cannot be too highly praised.” *Corpus Calossum was screened at the Toronto, Berlin, Rotterdam, and the Los Angeles film festivals amongst others. In January 2003, Snow won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Douglas Edwards Independent Experimental Film/Video Award for *Corpus Callosum. His numerous films have premiered in major film festivals all over the world. Five of his films have premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). In 2000, TIFF commissioned Snow with Atom Egoyan and David Cronenberg to make short films, Preludes, for the 25th Anniversary of the festival. Wavelength has been designated and preserved as a "masterwork" by the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada[3] and was named #85 in the 2001 Village Voice critics' list of the 100 Best Films of the 20th Century .

                                                                             ——http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Snow 

      I guess this film is made by three fixed videos taken by camera. One is a row of windows and a street in front of it, the other is the back of a room whose color and exposure changes and light is flaring. There are also people appears in the picture. I can see a person with a coat walking on the street and lain down（maybe die?）. I can hear some people sing a song. And there is an electronic sound going through the whole film, which becomes higher in the end.

   

     This film is structurally like a dream. Because the sound and the people`s behaviors are no related. Everything seems has no meaning but actually this is our life, which is so simple and peaceful. The sea appears in the end of the film takes the place of the normal life. I guess the artist want to compare the daily life of human beings to the sea which will never stop flowing.