Fred Worden Movies

I had a strong, slightly illicit, urge to commandeer the original train sequence from the 1931 film Possessed and make it move in such a way as to...

The story of Willard from Ashley's opera Atalanta, recounted in 3 parts.

"And so the intoxicated camera operator shoots the moon slipping through the barren trees. The rabbit hole's light shadow appears and he obliges,...

16mm, color, silent 24fps, 2m (1:56)

"Color/form, light/shadow, flatness/depth, figuration/abstraction, landscape/paint, all collaging and colliding in an exploratory, arrhythmic,...

No montage, no human subjects, minimal visual content, and the artists basically pissing on the fourth wall by calling attention in every way...

Coming in the wake of a whole movement of wild, ecstatic, psychedelic films loaded with unchecked energy and abandon, Throbs demonstrates a...

A Technicolor charge on horseback is mashed up with a series of early silent films from the Melies brothers.

Trying the surrealist notion of automatism as a practice of exploring the mysterious zone where light and non-light mingle in an unstable and fertile...

“Where the big ones break and the undercurrents push-pull an ancient, silent tune.” (FW)

The camera is spinning. The points accumulate to form a line, a line of horizon, which like any line draws a hidden curve. The traffic disengages...

“Conceived as a homage and an answer to Len Lye’s hand-processed FREE RADICALS. Lye’s film consists of direct, non-photographic...

A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.

I made this film in 1976 as an attempt to consider the flow of the scrolling frames in the spotlight as a field of experience of continuity, if the...

“This little-seen abstract work of Worden’s began with short expressionistic/biomorphic color sequences he generated from scratched and...

A single image in play, colliding infinitely with itself, in order to reach us beyond our defenses.

"An introductory sequence of flickering color frames serves as a conceptual architecture for the single-frame exploration of a multi-cornered New...

An accident on a frozen lake. A story told in a visual matrix paralleled by the spread of melting ice.

A lyrical study of the World Trade Center occupying space and reflecting space.

A short by Fred Worden