Every Wednesday night during the school year, the Mass Art Film Society features exceptional experimental film programming curated by Mass Art faculty professor/ Super 8 guru Saul Levine followed by a public Q&A with the filmmakers. Tonight’s line-up welcomes highly influential Canadian provocateur Michael Snow, whose work spans six decades garnering numerous accolades including the title “masterwork” awarded to him by the Audio-Visual Presentation Trust of Canada for his landmark avant-garde film “Wavelength” (1967). Snow will be screening two of his own films as well as a film from his late wife Joyce Wieland. First up is “Standard Time” (1967), a joyful meditation shot from a waist-high camera depicting carefully-illuminated square-shaped imagery forging a relationship between time, space, and image. Next up immerse yourself in “Back and Forth” (1969) in which the camera pans left and right upon a sterile classroom wall until the images blur into a hazy scrambling of images accented with minimal percussive wooden claps. Tonight’s programming concludes with “Cat Food” (1967), a short mesmerizing film made by Snow’s late wife Joyce Wieland, depicting a cat devouring fish after fish that may very well be the ancestor of today’s modern-day cat video.

8pm // All Ages

STANDARD TIME (1967) dir. Michael Snow
8:20min / sound / color

Back and Forth (1969) dir. Michael Snow
52 min. / sound / color

Cat Food (1967) dir. Joyce Wieland
3:30 min. / sound / color