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Movie poster: Wavelength (1967)
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Wavelength

1967 · 45 min Drama
5.3 / 10 · TMDB

Wavelength consists of almost no action, and what action does occur is largely elided. If the film could be said to have a conventional plot, this would presumably refer to the three “character” scenes. In the first scene two people enter a room, chat briefly, and listen to “Strawberry Fields Forever” on the radio. Later, a man (played by filmmaker Hollis Frampton) enters inexplicably and dies on the floor. And last, the female owner of the apartment is heard and seen on the phone, speaking, with strange calm, about the dead man in her apartment whom she has never seen before.

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Year 1967
Country Canada, United States of America
Genre Drama
Director Michael Snow
Runtime 45 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.3/10 (94 votes)

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Snow constructs a radical cinematic thesis, exploring the very nature of perception, time, and cinematic space. The film relies on a relentless zoom and a rising sine wave, gradually transforming a loft's representation into an abstract study of light and film grain.

What lingers after the final frame is a profound recalibration of one's sense of duration and event. The experience is less about watching a film and more about witnessing time itself become the subject. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Michael Snow

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