Wavelength

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Release Year: 1967

Director: Michael Snow

Review:  Absolutely one of the toughest movies to have to sit trough.  This is a 45 minute short, with virtually no action.  There is a single camera set up, fixed on three walls of a room.  It gradually, very gradually, zooms in on a picture on the wall over the course of the run time.  There are a couple times a person or two ventures into the room, but it is brief.  To make this experience even more fun, is a buzz which is ever increasing in pitch.  This ties in with the movies title. It is enough to drive a person insane.  Every second of it is excruciating.  'Wavelength' may be hailed as one of the finest Avant Garde films ever made, and one of the first structuralist works ever produced, but its not enjoyable in any sense of the word.
Rating: 1/5