Michael Snow: 'La Région Centrale'

Thu 26 Feb - Fri 27 Feb

10:30 - 16:50

Paradiso, Small Hall

Paradiso, Small Hall

Paradiso, Small Hall

Saturday 28 February

10:30 - 13:40

Paradiso, Small Hall

Sunday 1 March

12:00 - 15:10

Paradiso, Small Hall


Michael Snow, La Région Centrale, 1971, 16 mm, 190’ © Michael Snow

Michael Snow, La Région Centrale, 1971, 16mm film, colour, sound, 190’. Michael Snow’s classic three-hour film La Région Centrale will be screened in Paradiso for the duration of the festival. For La Région Centrale, Snow had a special camera apparatus constructed that could move on all axes: horizontally, vertically, laterally or in a spiral. The film is one continuous movement through space. Snow filmed in a deserted region devoid of human traces 160 kilometres north of the Sept-Isles in Quebec province: a treeless plateau, overlooking a vast panorama of the surrounding mountains. The film begins with the rotating camera slowly rising from the ground...

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