Mike Dunford Movies

Shot in America but edited in the UK, this and NEW YORK STREETS formed a more politicised, agit-prop, kind of production, but closer to the cut ups...

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...

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

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

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

A tautology is a circular argument. The film is about framing, about the frame and the image framed, and about the framing of the image. About the...

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...

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

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

Using video colorising, pushing u-matic tape –tracking close to breakdown, and slo-mo, a video devoid of narrative structure, interspersed with...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

The piece is built on a framework of tracking down and up a parking garage staircase, with a carwash in the basement, (since demolished) the same...

"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...

"After the standard 8 work this was my first 16mm film. As a film it shows all of the tendencies and concerns that preoccupied my ideas in film, and...

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