Mike Dunford Movies

  • 1972
    Portraits

    Portraits

    Portraits

    01972HD

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

    Portraits
  • 2015
    We live in interesting times

    We live in interesting times

    We live in interesting times

    02015HD

    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...

    We live in interesting times
  • 1972
    Silver Surfer

    Silver Surfer

    Silver Surfer

    101972HD

    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...

    Silver Surfer
  • 1971
    One million unemployed in winter '71

    One million unemployed in winter '71

    One million unemployed in winter '71

    101971HD

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

    One million unemployed in winter '71
  • 2018
    interregnum

    interregnum

    interregnum

    02018HD

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

    interregnum
  • 1972
    Scratches No. 2

    Scratches No. 2

    Scratches No. 2

    01972HD

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

    Scratches No. 2
  • 1972
    Slinklip

    Slinklip

    Slinklip

    01972HD

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

    Slinklip
  • 1993
    Windless Closure

    Windless Closure

    Windless Closure

    01993HD

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

    Windless Closure
  • 1989
    Nohi Abassi

    Nohi Abassi

    Nohi Abassi

    01989HD

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

    Nohi Abassi
  • 1987
    C.T

    C.T

    C.T

    01987HD

    A small meditation on light, wind, and Cecil Taylor

    C.T
  • 1983
    Culture of Domination

    Culture of Domination

    Culture of Domination

    01983HD

    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...

    Culture of Domination
  • 1974
    In the Dark

    In the Dark

    In the Dark

    01974HD

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

    In the Dark
  • 1974
    Arbitrary Limits

    Arbitrary Limits

    Arbitrary Limits

    01974HD

    Arbitrary Limits is a documentation, and a documentary, of the making of itself, a self-reflexive narrative that encompasses the relationship between...

    Arbitrary Limits
  • 1973
    Scratch

    Scratch

    Scratch

    01973HD

    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...

    Scratch
  • 1972
    True Love

    True Love

    True Love

    01972HD

    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...

    True Love
  • 1987
    Very Funny

    Very Funny

    Very Funny

    01987HD

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

    Very Funny
  • 1969
    Five Films

    Five Films

    Five Films

    01969HD

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

    Five Films
  • 1969
    Four Films

    Four Films

    Four Films

    01969HD

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

    Four Films
  • 1974
    Still-Life with Pear

    Still-Life with Pear

    Still-Life with Pear

    01974HD

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

    Still-Life with Pear
  • 1973
    Lens Tissue

    Lens Tissue

    Lens Tissue

    01973HD

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

    Lens Tissue