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Many Moving and Still Works

Through Oct. 29, free, Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut St., 215-701-4627, slought.org.


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Published: Sep 28, 2010

[ film/sound art ]

Yes, they're two of the most innovative and influential experimental artists of the past half-century, but that doesn't mean Michael Snow and John Oswald don't have a sense of humor. Irreverence has always been key to both men's cross-disciplinary art, and should be well evidenced when the "Two Torontonians" take the stage together for "Many Moving and Still Works." Snow's most famous work, the 1967 structuralist landmark Wavelength, is renowned for its formal rigor and discipline, but the 80-year-old filmmaker confronts the reduced attention spans of his modern audience with WVLNT: Wavelength for Those Who Don't Have the Time, a 15-minute distillation of the original. A generation younger, Oswald also plumbs the history of experimental film for his piece The World's Smallest I-MAX Showing, a pilfering of Stan Brakhage material in the spirit of his groundbreaking, copyright-defying Plunderphonics recordings, the foundation of every pop song mash-up you've ever forwarded from YouTube.

Through Oct. 29, free, Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut St., 215-701-4627, slought.org.