Fred Worden, filmmaker, has been involved in experimental cinema since the 1970s. His work has been screened at The Museum of Modern Art, in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, The Centre Pompidou, in Paris, The Pacific Film Archive, The
New York Film Festival, The
London Film Festival
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In 2016, the British Film Institute, BFI estim ...
, The Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Toronto Film Festival, and The
Hong Kong International Film Festival
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. He was an editor for
Criss-Cross Art Communications from the '70s through the '80s and his writings have appeared in Cinematograph. His work is included in the
Stan Brakhage
James Stanley Brakhage ( ; January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003) was an American experimental filmmaker. He is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th-century experimental film.
Over the course of five decades, Brakhage cr ...
Collection, the Austrian Museum, The Centre Pompidou and others. Worden's work develops out of his interest in intermittent projection as the source of cinema's primordial powers: how a stream of still pictures passing through a projector at a speed meant to overwhelm the eyes might be harnessed to purposes other than representation or naturalism.
He received his MFA in film, from the
California Institute of the Arts
The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a Private university, private art school in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for ...
.
The
Academy Film Archive preserved ''Four Frames'' and ''Throbs'' by Worden.
Filmography
16mm films
*THROBS (1972, color, sound, 7 min.)
*NOW, YOU CAN DO ANYTHING (with
Chris Langdon, 1973, color, sound, 6min.)
*VENUSVILLE (with
Chris Langdon, 1973, color, sound, 10min.)
*FOUR FRAMES (1976, color, silent, 10min.)
*BON AMI (1977, color, silent, 6.5min.)
*VUDOO (ca.1977-78, color, silent, 14min.)
*PANOVISION (1979, color, silent, 11min.)
*VENETIAN BLIND (ca.1979, color, sound, 10min.)
*TERRIFIC MEASURES (1980, color, silent, 5.5min.)
*INSOMNIA (1981, b/w, silent, 6min.)
*IN & OUT (1983, color, silent, 4min.)
*HERE, THERE, NOW, LATER (1983, color, silent, 3min.)
*PLOTTING THE GREY SCALE: 2 OR 3 QUICK TRAVERSES (1985, b/w, silent, 7min.)
*LURE (1986, color, sound, 7min.)
*HOW THE HELL I RIPPED JACK GOLDSTEIN’S PAINTING IN THE ELEVATOR (1986, b/w, sound, 23min.)
*BOULEVARD (1989, b/w, sound, 9min.)
*BREAKOUT (1990, color, sound, 10min.)
*INTRODUCTION TO THE SECRET SOCIETY (1992, color & b/w, sound, 9min.)
*THIS OLD HOUSE (1993)
*ONE (1998, b/w, silent, 25min.)
*AUTOMATIC WRITING 2 (2000, b/w, silent, 12min.)
*THE OR CLOUD (2001, b/w, silent, 7min.)
*IF ONLY (2003, b/w, silent, 7min.)
Digital works
*AMONGST THE PERSUADED (2004, 23min.)
*BLUE POLE(S) (2005, 20min.)
*HERE (2005, 11min.)
*EVERYDAY BAD DREAM (2006, 6min.)
*TIME'S ARROW (2007, 11min.)
*NORTH SHORE (2007, 11min.)
*THE AFTER LIFE (VICTORIA'S SECRET VERSION) (2007, 15min.)
*WHEN WORLDS COLLUDE (2008, 13min.)
*1859 (2008, 11min.)
*ALL MY LIFE (2009, 20min.)
*POSSESSED (2010, 9min.)
*ALL OR NOTHING (2012, 8.5min.)
Sources
External links
Personal websiteInvisible Cinema: Fred Worden SOUND AND MOTION: GOING PLACESSan Francisco Cinematheque: Energy and Deep Abstraction: The Graphic Cinema of Fred Worden
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American experimental filmmakers
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