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

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...

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...

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

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...

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 small meditation on light, wind, and Cecil Taylor

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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

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