Seated Figures (1988) by Michael Snow

Sunday, March 19, 1989, 12:00 am

MICHAEL SNOW’S NEW YORK EYE AND EAR CONTROL and SEATED FIGURES

SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE

800 Chestnut Street

San Francisco, CA, 94133

Presented tonight are the earliest (New York…, 1964) and the most recent (Seated Figures,1988) works of noted Canadian filmmaker Michael Snow, whose 1967 Wavelength ushered in a new era of experimental filmmaking. In New York… Snow postulates an eye that stares so intensely that the image seems to shiver. Seated Figures is a continuation of Snow’s examina­tion of the limits of aural and visual perception. His first film after a five-year hiatus, it depicts a landscape as viewed from the perspective of the exhaust pipe of a moving car while yawning, coughing, and other typical audience noises are heard on the sound track.