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,...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

A small meditation on light, wind, and Cecil Taylor

Lip Sync is about sync sound and the disruption of it. [The film] works by disrupting the element and foregrounding the effect on film, and...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

"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...

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...

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...

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...