Was Peter Weir alive when Michael Snow made "Wavelength"?
Peter Weir Peter Lindsay Weir, AM ( ; born 21 August 1944) is an Australian film director.
Wavelength (1967 film) Wavelength is a 45-minute film that made the reputation of Canadian experimental filmmaker and artist Michael Snow. Considered a landmark of avant-garde cinema, it was filmed over one week in December 1966 and edited in 1967, and is an example of what film theorist P. Adams Sitney describes as "structural film", calling Snow "the dean of structural filmmakers." "Wavelength" is often listed as one of the greatest underground, art house and Canadian films ever made. It was named #85 in the 2001 "Village Voice" critics' list of the 100 Best Films of the 20th Century. The film has been designated and preserved as a masterwork by the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada. In a 1969 review of the film published in "Artforum", Manny Farber describes "Wavelength" as "a pure, tough 45 minutes that may become "The Birth of a Nation" in Underground films, is a straightforward document of a room in which a dozen businesses have lived and gone bankrupt. For all of the film's sophistication (and it is overpowering for its time-space-sound inventions) it is a singularly unpadded, uncomplicated, deadly realistic way to film three walls, a ceiling and a floor... it is probably the most rigorously composed movie in existence."