How do any of the film-makers that you have seen, during the course of this module, make the cinema itself, their primary subject of investigation.

The experimental works of Michael Snow and other experimental film-makers require the viewer to be of a certain intellect. The films to be fully understood and appreciated should be placed within the context of art history, and more specifically modernism. Michael Snow is one of the best film-makers in his league. He is one of the worlds two most highly acclaimed experimental film-makers alongside Stan Brakhage. Michael Snow is not only a film-maker but he …

…ends looking back into the room from the outside (this is not a zoom shot, although there is a combination of zoom/dolly at points in the shot). Strangely enough, Wavelength's portentous movement into the photo of the wave has influenced, consciously or not, several narrative films (in addition to The Passenger, Barton Fink 1991, Things Never Said in Playa Perdida 2001, The Shining 1980 (in their endings) and The Decline of the American Empire 1986 (in the beginning).