Michael Snow : Wavelength /
In this illustrated study, Elizabeth Legge describes Wavelength as a film of virtuosically managed tensions, sensuous beauty, subtle light and color, and recession into perspectival depth. At the same time, she points out, it is also austere: the loft space where the action unfolds could be the last...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Afterall Books ;
2009.
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| Series: | One work.
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| Summary: | In this illustrated study, Elizabeth Legge describes Wavelength as a film of virtuosically managed tensions, sensuous beauty, subtle light and color, and recession into perspectival depth. At the same time, she points out, it is also austere: the loft space where the action unfolds could be the last clerical outpost of a defunct business. The zoom is punctuated by what Snow laconically called "4 human events": a woman directs two men who carry in a bookcase and place it against the left wall of the room; two women come in and listen to the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields" on the radio; a man briefly appears after protracted crashing and glass-breaking noises, wheels around, and drops dead; a young woman comes into the room and makes a frightened telephone call reporting the dead man ("And he doesn't look drunk, he looks dead."). |
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| Physical Description: | 93 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781846380556 (cloth) 1846380553 (cloth) 9781846380563 (paperback) 1846380561 (paperback) |