Described (rather cheekily) by director Michael Snow as a musical comedy, this deft probing of sound/image relationships is one of his wittiest, most entertaining and philosophically stimulating films. In his words, the film “derives its form and the nature of its possible effects from its being built from the inside, as it were, with the actual units of such a film, i.e. the frame and the recorded syllable. Thus its ‘dramatic’ element derives not only from a representation of what may involve us generally in life but from considerations of the nature of recorded speech in relation to moving light-images of people.’”
Credits
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen Cast
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Jackie Burroughs
She was 35, 71 years old when she died
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Jonas Mekas
He was 51, 96 years old when he died
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Bob Cowan
He was 51, 81 years old when he died
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Chantal Akerman
She was 24, 65 years old when she died
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Jessica Harper
She was 25, now 74 years old
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P. Adams Sitney
He was 30, now 79 years old
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Joyce Wieland
She was 43, 66 years old when she died
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Munro Ferguson
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Roz Michaels
She was 27, now 77 years old
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Michael Snow
He was 44, now 94 years old
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Babette Mangolte
She was 33, now 83 years old
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Amy Taubin
She was 35, now 84 years old
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‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen Crew
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Michael Snow as Director. He was 44 (now 94) years old
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Directing |
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Babette Mangolte as Director of Photography. She was 33 (now 83) years old
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Camera |
