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La Region Centrale, dir. Michael Snow, Canada 1970, 190 mins.
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"This is a picture, it’s pure cinema." – Jean-Luc Godard
In 1970 Snow, his partner Joyce Wieland and two colleagues were flown by helicopter to the wildernesses of northern Quebec and left there for several days. They set up a remote controlled device on a mountaintop to film the surrounding area, and the end result was La Région Centrale, a landscape study free of human life - both in front of and behind the camera. As the day deepens, the camera’s ceaseless movements defamiliarise and reconstitute the rocky terrain, the sky and the horizon. The outcome is not only a radical depiction of place that exceeds the limits of the frame, but also, in Snow’s words, “equally and more importantly a source of sensations, an ordering, an arranging of eye movements and of inner ear movements”.
In 1970 Snow, his partner Joyce Wieland and two colleagues were flown by helicopter to the wildernesses of northern Quebec and left there for several days. They set up a remote controlled device on a mountaintop to film the surrounding area, and the end result was La Région Centrale, a landscape study free of human life - both in front of and behind the camera. As the day deepens, the camera’s ceaseless movements defamiliarise and reconstitute the rocky terrain, the sky and the horizon. The outcome is not only a radical depiction of place that exceeds the limits of the frame, but also, in Snow’s words, “equally and more importantly a source of sensations, an ordering, an arranging of eye movements and of inner ear movements”.
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12:15 pm
Sun, 02 Feb 2025
Cinema 1
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