Wavelength

A triumph of modern art.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii that's the sound you'll hear for the final 3/4 of the film. Snow takes an interesting concept, fixed slowly zooming camera, adds a unique twist of visual trickery, and throws it all away by blatantly and purposefully annoying the audience with a high pitched squeal. Does the film have redeeming qualities? Definitely. Are they worth sitting through the film for? Not for me.

Having suffered through La Region Centrale, I was really dreading this. I had my witty, scathing review already written in my head. But I actually liked this one. It's a lot more than just a zoom shot, there's several unexpected surprises. The slow, determined movement of the camera and the incessant, rising electronic drone on the soundtrack create a sense of impending doom, and even more so when the rhythms get falter or get thrown off. Not for everyone, but I would totally watch this again.

One of the worst films it's ever been my displeasure to sit through. Complete waste of time from start to finish. No wonder modern art's got such a bad name.

a very interesting structuralist experiment that plays around with colour, depth and sound in order to frame and manipulate one's perceptions and emotions of a barebones plot regarding a man who dies in a room. phew. very, very engrossing and disturbing if you're in the right mood. oh, and because i don't have easy access to large cinema dedicated to hard experimentation, and because michael snow refuses to release this on dvd, i ended up watching an even lower quality version. bourgeois wanker.

*me in the very final second of this movie* OH it’s WAVES

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Such a mesmerizing work in so many aspects. The three scenes featuring people seem so eerie -- two people in the room, Strawberry Fields Forever playing on the radio, the dude collapsing on the floor, the lady calling to someone and talking about the dead man -- and the rest -- the 45min zoom in on a photograph of waves -- is no less strangely beautiful, with a score that sounds like a ghostly siren and juxtapositions that produce images as otherwordly as inevitably mundane.

Maybe I'm just not on the right combination of drugs to appreciate this. Feels like someone playing around with lighting (some of which is kind of neat looking, hence the score not being 0) and sound and then releasing it as a movie which then a lot of people inexplicably think is brilliant. There's just nothing redeeming here for me. A lot of people are creeped out by this, but I was just annoyed.

A camera pines for the sea instead of capturing more relevant information. Starting a rumor that watching this kills you so the kids will be into it.

6x faster

Modern art!

Very interest..zzzz

"Now it's said that Steven Spielberg can make anything he wants, and that's probably true. So let's say that Spielberg decided to make a remake of Michael Snow's Wavelength." http://illusionpodcast.blogspot.com/2014/03/episode-4.html

A film about a room and a kettle on the boil.

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Calling it just a zoom in on a wall seems to me very reductionist. I do find it a tad annoying, though.

Creepy and fascinating, Wavelength nearly put me in a trance. Extremely disconcerting and hypnotic. Plays with POV and voyeurism.

Spoiler alert: it's a photo of the sea.

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I thought I would hate this, but it was strangely hypnotic. I knew that it was just a 45-minute zoom shot with stuff going on that gets ignored, but the sine tones helped me really get into it. All the shit done with filters complimented it well too.

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I watched a very low-quality print, but even through that the film has an uncomfortable hypnotizing power that's hard to quantify.

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