LA REGION CENTRALE

"This new, 3-hour film by the Canadian Michael Snow is an extraordinary cinematic monument. No physical action, not even the presence of a man, a fabulous game with nature and machine which puts into question our perceptions, our mental habits, and in many respects renders moribund existing cinema: the latest Fellini, Bunuel, Kubrick, etc. For $La region centrale$, Snow had a special camera apparatus constructed by a technician in Montreal, an apparatus capable of moving in all directions: horizontally, vertically, laterally or in a spiral. The film is one continuous movement across space, intercutting occasionally the X serving as a point of reference and permitting one to take hold of stable reality." Louis Marcorelles, Le Monde, Paris 28/9/72