Little Walk

Little Walk 1964 is Michael Snows first gallery film installation It arrives as a diplomatic envoy from New Yorks art and film worlds of the sixties an alternative cinema informed by Minimalism and Happenings materializations of art as experience projected on Snows trademark Walking Woman Little Walk is a dynamic 12min silent loop that embodies the experimental nature characterizing the artists works during that decade From 1961 to 1967 Snow centred his artistic endeavours across all mediums around the naturalistic outline of a youthful woman Initially crafted from a cardboard cutout the walking womans image evolved into both the instrument and focal point of Snows creative expression Little Walk was created for an exhibition curated by Jonas Mekas called Expanded Cinema Originally captured on 8mm film the piece has since been transferred to DVD