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WAVELENGTH with Elizabeth Legge and Michael SnowPresented by: The Power Plant
Elizabeth Legge introduces a screening of Michael Snow's legendary Wavelength (1967, 45 min), which will be followed by a Q&A with Michael Snow.
“In 1966, at the height of minimal art in New York, Snow chose not to make another object to be placed in a room but instead spent a year planning a film of a room: Wavelength, a forty-five-minute more or less straight-line zoom from the near to the far wall of a loft space, accompanied by a rising sine wave…[I]t has functioned ever since as a touchstone for art and film studies, and as a blue screen in front of which a range of ideological and intellectual dramas have been played.” – Elizabeth Legge
Launching her new book in Afterall’s One Work series about the film, Elizabeth Legge introduces a screening of Snow’s legendary Wavelength (1967, 45 min.), considered one of the most important experimental films of all time. Legge is the Chair of the Department of Art at the University of Toronto. She has written extensively on Dada and Surrealism, and on contemporary British and Canadian art.
Wavelength will be followed by a Q&A with Michael Snow, and preceded by Snow’s short film Standard Time (1967, 8 min.). Copies of the book Wavelength will be on sale and Legge will be available to sign them at the event.
Co-presented with The Drake Hotel (www.thedrakehotel.ca).
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Runs: Feb 18, 2010
At: The Drake Underground, 1150 Queen Street West, Toronto
Playing: Thursday
Times: 7 PM
Cost: FREE - no reserve seating available
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(416) 973-4949
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thepowerplant@harbourfrontcentre.com
