Michael Snow

Central figure of the American avant-garde. An artist who made an isolated animated short, "A to Z," in 1956, Snow concentrated on his painting career until moving to New York in 1963. After attending avant-garde film screenings organized by critic-filmmaker Jonas Mekas and turning out a second film, the formalist "New York Eye and Ear Control" (1964), he made the highly influential "Wavelength" (1967).