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‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen

Described (rather cheekily) by director Michael Snow as a musical comedy, this deft probing of sound/image relationships is one of his wittiest, most entertaining and philosophically stimulating films. In his words, the film “derives its form and the nature of its possible effects from its being built from the inside, as it were, with the actual units of such a film, i.e. the frame and the recorded syllable. Thus its ‘dramatic’ element derives not only from a representation of what may involve us generally in life but from considerations of the nature of recorded speech in relation to moving light-images of people.’”

Credits

‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen Cast

Name Character
Jackie Burroughs She was 35, 71 years old when she died
Jonas Mekas He was 51, 96 years old when he died
Bob Cowan He was 51, 81 years old when he died
Chantal Akerman She was 24, 65 years old when she died
Jessica Harper She was 25, now 75 years old
Babette Mangolte She was 33, now 83 years old
Amy Taubin She was 35, now 85 years old
P. Adams Sitney He was 30, now 80 years old
Joyce Wieland She was 43, 66 years old when she died
Munro Ferguson
Roz Michaels She was 27, now 77 years old
Michael Snow He was 44, now 94 years old

‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen Crew

Name Department
Michael Snow as Director. He was 44 (now 94) years old Directing
Babette Mangolte as Director of Photography. She was 33 (now 83) years old Camera
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen poster
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (50 years)

  • Release day: Tuesday, November 05, 1974
  • Runtime: 270 minutes