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Filmed from a fixed camera angle in just one shot Nō shows two farmers working in the fields and how they change the landscape, giving it a new face, in what seems like a choreographed routine.
"Warning: This film may be especially unsatisfying for those who dislike having others read over their shoulders." Michael Snow's simple but clever concept of a film consisting entirely of text that addresses the viewer directly provides the audience with a surprising and complex experience.
The American photographer and filmmaker Shron Lockhart, born 1964, is one of the leading lights of neo-structuralist cinema. The Forum and Forum expanded have shown nearly all of her film work. Her newest work Double Tide will be shown in this year’s main programme.
Michael Snow, born in Toronto in 1928, is one of the most important experimental filmmakers in the world and possibly the most influential filmmaker in the area of structuralist film. He is also internationally renowned as an artist and avant-garde musician. The Forum showed his films La région centrale (1971), So Is This (1982), Seated Figures and Corpus Collosum (2002). Most recently, his works Reverberlin (2007) and Puccini Conservato(2009) were shown as part of Forum expanded.
Nō
Format: 16mm, color
Running Time: 30 min.
Language: w/o dialogue
So Is This
Camera: Anna Pafamow
Format: 16mm, color
Running Time: 43 min.
Language: English (text only)
