16mm Film Screening: Michael Snow's La Region Centrale
The Division of Art History and Professor James Hansen present a 16mm Film Screening of Michael Snow's La Region Centrale on Friday, January 28 at 6pm in Nevins Theater in the Powell Campus Center.
The Division of Art History and Professor James Hansen present a 16mm Film Screening of Michael Snow's La Region Centrale on Friday, January 28 at 6pm in Nevins Theater in the Powell Campus Center.
A rare 16mm film screening of a structural film masterpiece, Michael Snow's La Region Centrale (1971, 180 minutes). La Région Centrale transports its audience to a rugged Canadian landscape that is discovered at noon and then explored in seventeen episodes of dizzying motion as the machine’s shadow lengthens, night falls, and light returns. The soundtrack, composed by Snow for a quasi-synthesizer, refers to the sine waves and electronic pulses that had set the camera in motion and heightens the sensation of being under the power of an all-seeing machine. The experience is vertiginous, hallucinatory, and defining of the technological sublime.
This event is free and open to the public.