Wavelength

“The outstanding film of 1968… a very beautiful and important film.” – Jonas Mekas, Village Voice “‘Wavelength’ is without precedent in the purity of its confrontation with the essence of cinema: the relationships between illusion and fact, space and time, subject and object. It is the first post-Warhol, post-Minimal movie; one of the few films to engage those higher conceptual orders which occupy modern painting and sculpture. It has rightly been described as a ‘triumph of contemplative cinema.’” – Gene Youngblood, L.A. Free Press, 1968 “Michael Snow’s ‘Wavelength’, a pure, tough 45 minutes that may become ‘The Birth of a Nation’ in Underground films, is a straightforward document of a room in which a dozen businesses have lived and gone bankrupt. For all of the film’s sophistication (and it is overpowering for its time-space-sound inventions) it is a singularly unpadded, uncomplicated, deadly realistic way to film three walls, a ceiling and a floor… it is probably the most rigorously composed movie in existence.” – Manny Farber, Artforum