Mike Dunford Movies

Faces pass by in quickly edited, split-screen recordings. A 'structuralist' film in which the film material itself plays an important role. Grain,...

A small tree filmed on Hampstead Heath is printed out and re-edited at the Film Coop to form a formal abstract sequence bracketed by juddering...

All part of a series called LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS. The simple aim of this series was to didactically select several elements of film naturalism, which...

Marks another stage of work which I called “distributed narrative”. In this a strand of thought, an idea or a story, and related or...

A surfer, filmed and shown on tv, refilmed on 8mm,and refilmed again on 16mm.Simple loop structure preceded by four minutes of a still frame of the...

Standard 8 colour film, refilmed and slowed down, edited into a formal work on 16mm film, of camera pan sequences of a woman lying naked. Almost...

This film came after Arbitrary Limits, and expanded the aspect of the social context of the film’s production to essentially dominate the...

A small meditation on light, wind, and Cecil Taylor

Part of the Logical Propositions series, 16mm, colour, sound

In 2008 de-regulated globalised finance capital brought the world to the brink of disaster. Its ideology of market fundamentalism and unconstrained...

Scratch begins as a standard 8 film fragment, originally filmed in our 60’s basement kitchen, and reprojected as a loop 5 times with a repeated...

'Still-Life with Pear' takes a subversive position towards the illusion inherent in the film-image, its apparent transparency to representation, but...

A film on unemployment that invites the spectator to resist capitalism and the consumption society, made by Mike Dunford, who was unemployed at the...

Part of the Logical Propositions series. 16mm, colour, sound

Another approach to the same complex of story and videographic operations. This time the videographic work takes primacy and is almost wholly...

Ronald Reagan had been elected US president in 1981, and began the long unwinding of post-war progressive economic and social policy awaited by the...

Five experimentations with film as a medium, a physical object and a record of social reality.

Early experimentations with film by a materialist sculptor and future structural filmmaker.

All part of a series called LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS. The simple aim of this series was to didactically select several elements of film naturalism, which...

"In 1983 I was working in San Francisco as a housepainter and much of the time we worked in Burlingame, south of the city. This tape is a meditation...