Michael Snow - La Région Centrale (1971)

[@lachclub]

This was the first work of art that lets us see and experience the world through the eye of a subject that is not asking "WHY". There is just space and time, no gravity, no past, no future. After three hours of seeing the film and living its presence you should get an idea of this.

[@signorellil]

I've the whole movie - in VHS - and it's great. Try seeing it alone at night, it's pretty scary and chilling and alien. I believe that's the difference between great experimental art and just random stuff made just to show off. True art always creates some kind of strong emotion or response

[@fourclaws]

This is a film that does away with anthropocentrism and embraces the posthuman potential of cinema. Your gaze marges with the gaze of the machine, the gaze of the camera. Vertov alread wrote on the camera as the third eye. Try to experience it.

[@danwroy]

I highly recommend hovering your cursor above the timeline and running it across to the end.

[@moondigit007]

Done in 1971 before Google or martian rovers, amazing.

[@vaspers]

Love this. I enjoyed "Back and Forth" in NYC.

[@tlatsegms]

Great work!

[@ricardcarbonell]

Unique! Great! I want to see more.

[@SenecioKlee]

Michael Snow is a god.

[@JRegadera]

Genius Snow...

[@filmsbydanbrowne]

@lachclub All ancient art was/is concerned with eternal concepts, Snow is an innovator certainly but in this respect he is merely restoring the status of art to its former glory.

[@renatasan73]

Great, Great film

[@Asaconstant]

The horizon has collapsed

[@motherfinestudios]

Where's the other 175 minutes of this?

[@DonAlex63]

Ive got the whole thing, runs over three hours total.

[@therichdandy1]

Where I can get this full movie?dónde puedo conseguir esta pelicula de arte completa?

[@MarisolEstevezlavacamarga]

ME gusta. pero me marea verlo y me dá ganas de debolver. me duele la cabeza verlo

[@signorellil]

Beautiful movie, I own the VHS, quite disturbing if watched alone at night.

[@signorellil]

I've seen the entire movie (I've a videotape of it) and it's beautiful, and in in some moment quite disturbing - try watching it alone at night!

[@maoheetube]

Snow falls to Earth.

[@felixgarfield2010]

Andy Warhol (who made a six hour film of a man asleep in bed) would be proud.

[@oliviermatthey7925]

phenomenological!!

[@morissmor]

Avant lvl. 10

[@signorellil]

I own the whole movie (in VHS) and is great. Try seeing it alone at night. It's quite chilling, and scary and alien.

[@manmaas]

"...some people think it's great. Please tell me why?" Because arnie's not in it.

[@superb0b]

3deep5me

[@SlickGinoRomano]

mikes movies really confuse me

[@MrTomSmoke]

3deep4me

[@edmund184]

I saw this last night at the National Film Theatre(London). I think it's the most boring film ever made. I mean, what's intersting about seeing a landscape rotating? But some people think it's great. Please tell me why?

[@lionelplayfordart1247]

If Snow's aim was 'to make a gigantic landscape film equal in terms of film to the great landscape paintings of Cezanne, Poussin, Corot, Monet, Matisse' then this doesn't do it, impressive though the technology is. It's too didactic and nor does it invite one to contemplate over and over like the artists he aspires to. A much more immersive film might have worked better. Give me Cezanne or Corot on the wall any day!

[@MrNamoroka]

2deep4me

[@Alifib28]

this was not really interesting at all lol

[@GodlyDinamix]

"the most interesting film"....... Really?

[@JonathanWKnight]

"wow, i got a camera, lets fine a nice beautiful landscape and spin my camera in arbitary directions! yay......." *BLUUUUURRRGGGGHHH"

[@Erzkreutz]

reminds me of baselitz who paints upside down and everybody is like HURRR OMG SO RADICAL. stuff like this is made for people who want to feel elitist by pretending they understand more about something than it really is.

[@kinderstrudel]

Nobody actually finds this entertaining, do they?

[@Cats777]

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