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Tonight’s program features Michael Snow’s 3-hour tour-de-force La Région Centrale from 1971. Snow created a remote-controlled camera-activating machine triggered by a sound recording of experimental music and commissioned engineer Pierre Abeloos to build it. Rigged for movement in all directions, including turning, rolling, and spinning, Snow explores a cinematic landscape of a rugged Canadian terrain—defiying gravity and leaving the viewer guessing which direction is up and down. Covering a 24-hour cycle, La Région Centrale is revealed in seventeen episodes of dizzying motion as the machine’s shadow lengthens, night falls, and light returns. 1971, 16mm, 180 min.
