Michael Snow’s Cinema is a Cinematexas Film Festival program presented in association with the Austin Film Society. Snow is one of the great experimental conceptualists of the cinema, who tries to reveal the medium’s core essentials. Two short films, “So Is This” (1982, 43 min.) and “Seated Figures” (1988, 42 min.) play on Fri (9/24), 7:15pm, at the Dobie. Snow’s famous short “New York Eye and Ear Control” (1964, 34 min.) plays as part of the 1960s Avant-Garde Retrospective on Sat (9/25), 3:45pm, at the Dobie. Admission to these films is $7/$5 for AFS members and students. Snow’s infamous, four-and-a-half-hour-long Rameau’s Nephew by Diderot (Thanks to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen plays on Sun (9/26) at noon at the Alamo Drafthouse. Admission is free but those who wish to leave before the movie is over will have to pay to get out.
This article appears in September 17 • 1999.