Editing Michael Snow (section)

===Films===
Snow is considered one of the most influential [[experimental film]]makers of all time. [[Annette Michelson]], in writing about Snow, his 1967 film ''Wavelength'', and his films in general, speaks of the impact of Snow's films, placing viewers in a "position to more fully understand the particular impact of Snow's filmic work from 1967 on, to discern the reasons for the large consensus given" to ''Wavelength'' when it was honoured with the Grand Prize at the 1967 Experimental Film Festival ''EXPRMNTL 4'' in [[Knokke]], [[Belgium]], and that "''Wavelength'', [appears] as a celebration of the 'apparatus' and a confirmation of the status of the subject, and it is in those terms that we may begin to comprehend the profound effect it had upon the broadest spectrum of viewers...."<ref name="michelson " >Michelson, "About Snow" ''October'' Vol. 8 (Spring, 1979): 118.</ref> ''Wavelength'' has been the subject of numerous [[retrospective]]s internationally. Film scholar Scott MacDonald says of Snow that "[f]ew filmmakers have had as large an impact on the recent avant-garde film scene as Canadian Michael Snow, whose ''Wavelength'' is probably the most frequently discussed 'structural' film."<ref>Scott MacDonald, "''So Is This'' by Michael Snow" ''Film Quarterly'' Vol. 39, No. 1 (Autumn, 1985): 34.</ref>

''Wavelength'' has been designated and preserved as a masterwork by the [[Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://avtrust.ca/masterworks/2006/en_film_1.htm|title=Academia Vita Trust|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927210856/http://avtrust.ca/masterworks/2006/en_film_1.htm|archive-date=September 27, 2007}}</ref> and was named #85 in the 2001 ''[[Village Voice]]'' critics' list of the 100 Best Films of the 20th Century .<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmsite.org/villvoice.html |title=100 Best Films - Village Voice |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331174817/http://www.filmsite.org/villvoice.html |archive-date=March 31, 2014 }}</ref>

Snow's films have premiered in film festivals worldwide and five of his films have premiered at the [[Toronto International Film Festival]] (TIFF).{{CN|date=January 2023}} In 2000, TIFF commissioned Snow, along with [[Atom Egoyan]] and [[David Cronenberg]], to make a series of short films collectively titled ''Preludes'', for the 25th Anniversary of the festival.{{CN|date=January 2023}}

In his ''[[Village Voice]]'' review of Snow's 2002 film ''[[*Corpus Callosum]]'', [[J. Hoberman]] writes that Snow's films are "[r]igorously predicated on irreducible cinematic facts [and] Snow's structuralist epics—''[[Wavelength (1966 film)|Wavelength]]'' and ''[[La Région Centrale]]''—[announce] the imminent passing of the film era. Rich with new possibilities, ''*Corpus Callosum'' heralds the advent of the next. Whatever it is, it cannot be too highly praised." ''*Corpus Callossum'' was screened at the [[Toronto International Film Festival|Toronto]], Berlin, Rotterdam, and Los Angeles film festivals amongst others. In January 2003, Snow won the [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association]]'s Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award for ''*Corpus Callosum''.<ref name="la film " >{{cite web|url=http://www.lafca.net/years/2002.html|title=28th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|publisher=[[Los Angeles Film Critics Association]]|date=2002|access-date=January 24, 2018|archive-date=August 4, 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120804062223/http://www.lafca.net/years/2002.html|url-status=dead}} Tied with [[Kenneth Anger]] "for his body of work".</ref>