Produced on the occasion of the travelling exhibition Michael Snow: Works 1969-1978, Films 1964–1976 at Kunstmuseum Luzern, 4 March–22 April 1979; Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, 2 August–9 September 1979; and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, 16 October – 25 November 1979.

Michael Snow (1928–2023) was one of the world’s leading experimental filmmakers, having inspired the Structural Film movement with his groundbreaking film Wavelength, 1967. Snow’s extensive and multidisciplinary oeuvre includes painting, sculpture, video, film, sound, photography, holography, drawing, writing, and music.