Michael Snow: Cinema as Gradual Process

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Keywords:

structural film, process music, Wavelength process, Michael Snow

Abstract

This paper proposes an interpretation of Wavelength (1967), by Michael Snow, that privileges the notion of process in detriment of the notion of structure, which has been a predominant concept in Snow's extensive critical fortune. The hypothesis presented here is that we can better understand the proposal and implications of the film by contextualizing its procedures in the critical debate on process music and art in the 1960s, throught a genealogical and comparative study.

Author Biography

Hermano Arraes Callou, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Doutor em Comunicação e Cultura pela UFRJ. Professor Substituto do departamento de Métodos e Áreas Conexas da UFRJ.

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2022-05-19

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No. 47 (2022): Galáxia

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