Snows (1967)

Snows was built out of Schneemann's anger, outrage, fury and sorrow over the atrocities of the Vietnam War. An ethereal stage environment combining colored light panels, film projection, torn collage, hanging sacks of colored water, "snow"-crusted branches, rope, foil and foam was set and setting in which an audience-activated electronic switching system controlled elements of the performance/ installation. Images from film, slides and live action propel silent, ghostly performers to become aggressor and victim, torturer and tortured, lover and beloved, as well as simply themselves in this breakthrough mixed media film-performance.