Welcome to Michael and Us, I'm Will Sowne, here as always with.

Luke Savage, welcome back, everyone.

Yeah, don't do the Great White North song at the beginning.

I promised Luke that I wouldn't play the Great White North song that I play on any Canada-themed

episode.

So I'm definitely not going to drop it in right here.

But we do have some Canadian content on this episode.

And I'd actually like to kick things off with the death of a great Canadian artist this week, Michael Snow.

If you're not familiar with the name, Luke, you're definitely familiar with some of his work.

In my world, he's well known as an experimental filmmaker.

He made a film in 1967 called Wavlength, which was a 45-minute experimental film.

It showed a slow zoom from one end of a room to another with this strange, like, howling sound in the background,

and a couple of things interjecting into the frame at a couple of different moments.

Doesn't sound very appealing, I know, the way I describe it, but it is a landmark of

experimental cinema and a really bizarre, hypnotic viewing experience, especially if you can see it

projected. But he was a multi-hyphenate. He was a visual artist, a jazz musician, did a lot of jazz

piano, sculpture, photography. You have definitely seen at the Skydome, also known as the Rogers Center, our baseball stadium here in town, his enormous sculpture on the side of the building of the fans, you know, the bronze sculpture of the fans sitting in the balcony.

He also did that wonderful installation at the Eaton Center, our big mall

in the city, the geese, I believe it's actually known as flight stop. And in addition to being a very

famous art installation in Toronto, that was the subject of a very famous court case as well,

which was an important case on moral rights in Canada, the right of the author.

Michael Snow created this installation, and then in 1981 during the Christmas season, the people

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