Michael Snow continues to explore and push the boundaries of yet another field, music.
Michael Snow revolutionized the possibilities of what cinema can be with his landmark films Wavelength and La Région Centrale. In these films, his investigations into pure film and sound create, for some, a transcendental experience. His rise to international prominence began with the seminal Walking Woman series, a body of work spanning seven years. The series presents, in various mediums, (painting, sculpture, photography, film) a single cut-out figure, continually transformed. In Toronto, he has four permanent public sculptures. Flight Stop at the Eaton Centre and The Audience at the Rogers Centre are synonymous with our Canadian heritage and the urban interior/exterior landscape of the city.
Fields of Snow takes the form of a journey with Michael Snow on his recent travels being honoured with various retrospectives around the world, while simultaneously tracing the history of his musical career as he connects with various musicians from his past and present. It will feature six decades of Snow's lesser known musical side and honour his significant contribution to contemporary art.
A view into his solo work, collaborations and compositions, the film reveals Michael Snow's innovative insights and artistry extending into the realms of sound. As the artist has said "Some of my most radical discoveries have been in music and sound".
He has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1972) the Order of Canada (Officer, 1982; Companion, 2007), and the first Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts (2000) for cinema. Snow was made a Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres, France (1995) and in 2004 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne. (The only other artist to receive this award was Picasso)
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