For La Région centrale, Snow had a special camera apparatus constructed...an apparatus capable of moving in all directions: horizontally, vertically, laterally, or in a spiral. The film is one continuous movement across space, intercutting occasionally the X serving as a point of reference and permitting one to take hold of stable reality. Snow has chosen to film a deserted region, without the least trace of human life....In the first frames, the camera disengages itself slowly from the ground in a circular movement. Progressively, the space fragments, vision inverts in every sense, light everywhere dissolves appearance. We become insensible accomplices to a sort of cosmic movement....He catapults us into the heart of a world before speech, before arbitrarily composed meanings, even (before) subject. He forces us to rethink not only cinema, but our universe.