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,...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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 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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...