[Frameworks] Michael Snow

[Sarah Kolberg]

Hello Ron:

You may remember we (and Louisa) had the pleasure of meeting many years ago at UB when I coordinated the 35th anniversary conference.  What a lovely few days that was.

Michael Snow was one of my favourites, along with Hollis.  I love teaching both of their work too.  I had the pleasure of meeting him a couple of times in Toronto, at various openings, and in 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, here in Buffalo, when he came to perform an improv piano performance accompanied on guitar by Don Metz (of the BPAC). It was quite impressive that they were able to perform so seamlessly together - both riffing off of the other. He was always so gracious with his time and attention.

I am always dismayed that so many people in Toronto only know him for his flying geese in the Eaton Centre and the crowd sculptures on the outside of the skydome.  I loved when he sued Eaton's (and won!) for putting red bows on the geese at Christmas one year on the basis that they had infringed on the moral integrity of the work and harmed his reputation. That case actually changed copyright law in Canada to stipulate that any modification of an artist's work could be deemed harmful to their reputation.

all best,

                ~ sarah


From: Frameworks <frameworks-bounces at film-gallery.org> On Behalf Of Green, Ron Green
Sent: Friday, January 6, 2023 7:04 PM
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Subject: [Frameworks] Michael Snow

Ah, I just heard that Michael Snow has died. This really hurts. One of the most astonishingly original, inventive, expansive, minutely microscopic, musical, encyclopedic, poetic, theoretic filmmakers of all time. A magnificent improvising pianist, jazz avant-garde and sound artist and theorist, photographer, book maker, public artist, and multi-dimensional hybridizer. His work is an infinite joy to study and teach. I loved watching him at the various congresses for experimental film and watching him meet and enjoy Klaus Wyborny in Berlin. I loved hearing from one of the curators in a Vienna museum about Snow's amazing performance on solo piano at the Musikverein the month before. Seeing him in attendance years ago at the conference on Hollis Framton in Chicago, one wished such a conference for him-never mind, he was celebrated all over and very often, and will reward attention for a long time. What a lovely person.

Ron Green
356 W 7th Ave
Columbus OH 43201
Landline/Answer Machine: 614.421.2131
Cell/Text:  614.313.7519

J. Ronald Green
Professor Emeritus of Film Studies
Department of History of Art
The Ohio State University

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