Seated Figures poster

Seated Figures

7.0(1)198842m0

Although Seated Figures is characteristically confined by a specific placement of the camera — in this case, fixed to the rear of a pickup truck and aimed at the ground — the result is one of Snow's most visually compelling films. As Snow drives the truck over all kinds of terrain — he has offhandedly described the film as a "history of roads" — we see a variety of textures flowing in front of the camera as this road movie unfolds: asphalt, gravel, dirt roads, sand, grass, flowers and shallow creeks. The imagery moves between abstraction and representation as different travelling speeds affect the legibility of the visuals, and as manmade surfaces give way to the beautifully variegated patterning of nature.

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Language
English

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Director

Michael Snow

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Canada

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Release dates

  • CanadaCA

    • Theatrical (limited)Images Festival30 Jun 1988
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical10 Feb 1990

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Seated Figures was released on 30 June 1988.

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