Michael Snow: Wavelength (AFTERALL) by Elizabeth Legge

By Elizabeth Legge

An illustrated research of Michael Snow's "zoom film," which has turn into a touchstone for paintings and picture experiences.

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I put a piece of white tape on the zoom lens. Opening shot to closing shot, I divided up the tape into 18 (1) equal sections then further subdivided that into tiny increments that I could follow as I turned the zoom lens by hand. I also divided up the film stocks into a selected numbered series of 1 to 18 (1) ... I first shot the intruder falling to the floor. It was roll 1 0 or something but I knew where it was on the marked up zoom lens tape. It was shot over a period of afew days, a week and a bit.

102 This scenario is particularly suggestive of the set-up of Wavelength, with its protracted zoom directed toward the 'walking woman' who appears as a flat silhouette or pin-up gir 1.

Apparently insignificant, these are actant behaviours, which have nothing really to do with character or verisimilitude. 82 We find a list of similarly Wavelength 147 structural 'movie actions' jotted down by Snow in his notes: reading, applying makeup, dressing up, putting on a record, doing exercises, opening and closing a window and making a telephone call (though another action that Snow contemplated in his notes for the film, 'masturbating', seems to be more of a parody of a structural device to prolong narrative).

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