Standard Time (1967) User Reviews (2)

Movement...Constant movement...

[The-Mouse · 2 April 2003]

I'll start off by saying that I'm not a big fan of Michael Snow's work. The man definitely likes to experiment with camera techniques and people hail him as one of Canada's greatest experimental film artists. This film is basic repeated movements. Pans and Tilts repeated over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, sometimes giving a bit more and then the pattern repeats. The film as a whole is hypnotic, sometimes even nauseating as we try to make over the pictures we are seeing. Genius or simple crap? You decide.

A simple, formal experiment in film technique

[gortx · 24 April 2005]

Unlike some of Snow's other works, here, what you see, is largely what you get. A brief series of formal experiments in camera movement. The film is comprised of a series of pans. Left to right. Right to Left. Up and Down. Slower. Faster. Back and forth. The soundtrack are brief snippets seemingly recorded from random conversations and cut up into pieces.

Hard to express much in the way of analytical discussion. This just seems to be a warm-up for Snow in the ways of Camera movement in space (though, surprisingly, it actually followed WAVELENGTH chronologically).