3. Wavelength

Shot in an 80-foot loft in December 1966 and screened for the first time the following year, Michael Snow’s is a landmark of avant-garde cinema. Reviewing it in 1969, the American critic Manny Farber speculated that this 45-minute work, which ostensibly consists of a progressive zoom across a room accompanied by the sound of a continually shortening sine wave, might become of underground cinema. It