In memory of Michael Snow (1928 –2023)
When you hear about avant-garde filmmaking, the first thing that often comes to mind is someone on a shoestring budget, but with an outsized concept or series of images in their head. Something like Stan Brakhage’s work, an experimental filmmaker who mostly played with the form of the film he used, not the environment or subject he was capturing, if indeed he was even capturing one at all. What you think of less,…