Presents (Michael Snow - 1981)

[trep]

Some Notes about Structural Film

Michael Snow "Presents"

6mm 1981 90’
A film by Michael Snow with Jane Fellowes and Peter Melnick, and with Robin Collyer, Keith Lock, Brian Day, Stephen Smith, Gregory Svaluto, Ric Amis and The Canada Council.

Michael Snow (Toronto, 1929) is considered one of Canada’s most important living artists. A prolific painter, photographer, sculptor, jazz musician and filmmaker, Snow’s art explores the possibilities inherent in different mediums and practices. He has received many international awards, and his work is shown continually in retrospectives around the world. With each piece, Snow invites us to contemplate and put into question his chosen medium, in an oscillation between what is represented, its process and material.

“The apparent vertical scratch in celluloid that opens Presents literally opens into a film within the film. When its figure awakens into a woman in a ‘real’ unreal set, the slapstick satire of structural film begins. It is not the camera that moves, but the whole set, in this first of three material ‘investigations’ of camera movement. In the second, the camera literally invades the set; a plexiglass sheet in front of the dolly crushes everything in its sight as it zooms through space. Finally, this monster of formalism pushes through the wall of the set and the film cuts to a series of rapidly edited shots as the camera zigzags over lines of force and moving fields of vision in an approximation of the eye in nature. Snow pushes us into acceptance of present moments of vision, but the single drum beat that coincides with each edit in this elegiac section announces each moment of life’s irreversible disappearance.”
Philip Monk, Art Express

http://www.re-voir.com/html/snowprojection.html

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Just to cheer you up a bit... the first Michael Snow on the Mule, and a good one besides!
Well, at least the image quality is fairly good, BUT there's some annoying ghosting. I did my best but couldn't find a IVTC that worked on this one, so you'll have to settle for what I can offer (trying to IVTC it led to ghosting, residual telecine lines and jerky pans... and when you'll see the second half of this movie you'll understand jerky pans are just not an option). It's also oversized but again, 2 CDs was overkill but less than this bitrate was assasination.



(last thumbnail is for Lauri )

THE LINK:
Michael Snow - Presents.avi

and another Michael Snow's short (low quality this one!!) as a bonus:
Michael Snow - Prelude.avi

[LauRíSTiCa]

If you're interested in this guy, have a look at the site below. Some info and some Michael Snow's films' excerpts are available.
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/region-central/
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/wavelength/

Thanks for all the amazing stuff you share here (except for that monstrous hairy ball dedicated to me. XDDDD).

[tethor]

Just to cheer you up a bit... the first Michael Snow on the Mule, and a good one besides!
Well, at least the image quality is fairly good, BUT there's some annoying ghosting. I did my best but couldn't find a IVTC that worked on this one, so you'll have to settle for what I can offer (trying to IVTC it led to ghosting, residual telecine lines and jerky pans... and when you'll see the second half of this movie you'll understand jerky pans are just not an option)

Alguien me lo puede explicar, mi inglés da pena

Grazie mile Trep

[trep]

Alguien me lo puede explicar, mi inglés da pena

[tethor]

[Fitzcarraldo]

woooow, nice Trep thankssss!!!!!

[atalante75]

Hi

I downloaded this film last week but I can't watch it!!!

I've tried several programs but none has worked. There must be a missing codec in my computer or something like that, but I don't know what to do... Lately I've been able to watch all the stuff I've downloaded.

Is there any codec I should have installed? Any hints?

Thank you in advance, I always follow your contributions with great interest (& click them!!).

[trep]

Is there any codec I should have installed? Any hints?

Some Windows installations seem to have some difficulties with my Gnu/Linux-born rips It seems it's the way windows handles the codecs.

Usually the solution is to install VLC player:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

VLC comes with its own codecs, indipendently from Windows, and as far as I know it works .

[atalante75]

and as far as I know it works

It has worked, indeed!

Grazie mille

[sumidoiro]

Three years later, but it won't escape.

Many thanks.

[Ozu]

Gracias trep y también sumidoiro por reflotar un par de hilos interesantes que se me habían pasado.

Saludos