Genres: experimental

  • Rage Net

    A hand-painted film which deals with the mind’s visual absorption after the fact of blind rage. (Printed twice on the reel.)

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

    “Until ‘Rameau’s Nephew…’ no one has exhibited a film that deals so thoroughly with the range of perceptual problems elicited by the sound cinema.” – M. Keller, Chicago Film Centre “…an achievement of the originality and brilliance of ‘Wavelength.’ Snow embraces the problems on intimacy of language and thought with such variety, clarity and invention and high humour that again he seems to have made a film out of which an entire future movement could be mined.” – P. Adams Sitney, Soho Weekly News I started scripting this film in February 1972 and writing, shooting, mixing, editing and continued till…

  • Ranch: The Alan Wood Ranch Project

    “Ranch” is about The Alan Wood Ranch Project, a massive environmental art piece built on 320 acres in the foothills of the Rockies. Combining time-lapse photography, old Hollywood Westerns, television news and aerial photography, “Ranch” offers the viewer a refreshing new appreciation of the work. A film of breathtaking beauty and a document of surprising humour, “Ranch” is part experimental cinema, part documentary.

  • Rat Life and Diet in North America

    “I can tell you that Wieland’s film holds. It may be about the best (or richest) political movie around. It’s all about rebels (enacted by real rats) and police (enacted by real cats). After long suffering under the cats, the rats break out of prison and escape to Canada. There they take up organic gardening, with no DDT in the grass. It is a parable, a satire, an adventure movie, or you can call it pop art or any art you want – I find it one of the most original films made recently.” – Jonas Mekas “The film is…

  • Rattle

    The film is, at once, a document of a great Canadian multinational facing perilous agricultural “sophistication,” and a lament – a witness to the element of ruin that plagues industry. The Massey Harris King Street Factory (Toronto) was built in 1879 to a chorus of consternation. The size and scope were unprecedented in Canada at that time, and it established this company (later to be Massey Ferguson) as a major manufacturing firm in the agricultural industry. The film is a journey through the remnants of the factory which, for years, served as the pillar of the corporation. Seen from afar,…

  • Ray Gun Virus

    Although affirming projector, projection beam, screen, emulsion, film frame, structure, etc., this is not an “abstract film”/projector as pistol/time-coloured pills/yes – no/mental suicide & then rebirth as self-projection (sound: full volume, full bass). ” …I really do think you have a very fine film there of magnificent subtlety in its by-play with the texture of film and eye’s grain…” – Stan Brakhage “The retinal retention of after-images is remarkable.” – Ed Emshwiller Screenings/Collections: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Royal Film Archive, Brussels; Kolmischer Kunsteverein; United States Information Agency

  • Razorhead

    “Experimental ‘Razorhead’ …is a jolt and a half that has little to do with any sort of haircut you can get on Astor Place.”- Eliot Stein, Village Voice, 1987 The film was made on the request of the participants as a record of a two-day erotic ritual. 400 feet of film were shot and later permission was obtained to treat the material as an aesthetic composition, approximately 250 feet long. Originally the film was intended as part of a series dealing with non-genital sex and symbolic eroticism.

  • Ball in California, A

    I took along a beach ball on my trip to California; it is bounced, rolled, tossed, kicked and carried by a motley collection of complete strangers who express a great range of attitudes towards the camera, the ball and me. This film incorporates an unusual improvised soundtrack for solo bassoon.

  • Re: Entry

    When I was eighteen, I was young, I dove in the pool and it seemed like I was thirty before I reached the other side. In the water I was suddenly in a different world, the walls had gone and the darkness was not the absence of light but the presence of things unseen – of a whole world of being not known or realized before. I got out and looked at the ripples in the water extending away from me. I was looking into this time past, with his immensity of vision, straining my eyes to distinguish some form,…

  • Reading Between the Lines

    Reading the replies to a personal ad she has placed, a woman imagines herself in relationships with three different men. The film uses both layering and fragmentation to weave a web of associations and create a dynamic and fast-moving flow of images and events. Quick flashbacks, like momentary thoughts, accumulate. The reading voice is the constant, a soft steady interior voice around which the images dance and leap. The most dramatic moments of a given scenario are played out in a realistic fashion, and some scenarios, differently imagined, are repeated with each of the men: the restaurant, the dance, the…