Fred Worden Movies

"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 monochromatic field study of sorts, along perpendicular axes. Varying shades of grey flicker in increasing intensity, giving way to a...

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

"A more or less true story from my days as an art handler in 1980s New York City." (FW)

LSD is illegal. 1859 is not.

When it comes to motion pictures, I’ve always been a lot more interested in the motion than the pictures. Images, in fact, have always been for...

16mm, color, sound, 6m

"That hike went to a 1400 ft. peak in the Rockies. I'm not sure of the specific mountain but it may have been Long's Peak. Yes, we had fun making...

Dresher Center for the Humanities presents a lecture on experimental film by Fred Worden, Associate Professor of Visual Art.

“I made The After Life using images out of a tiny mini-camcorder called a Flip that I bought on amazon.com for $98.00. All I did with the...

“INSOMNIA is the most minimal and self-referential of Worden’s films. It consists entirely of punched holes in black leader. The fractal...

Two simple and progressive accumulations mingle with the confines of the Moffit Tunnel in the Rockies.

Like picking shards of broken glass out of pile carpet on a hangover morning.

A guided adventure for the eyeballs. And as such, also, of necessity, an adventure of the mind (how could it be otherwise ?). (...) I believe there...

“Continued explorations of automatism as a practical guide to negotiating the mysterious zone where light and no-light flutter in a fecund...

The human susceptibility to delusional thinking has, at least, this defining characteristic: easy to spot in others, hard to see in oneself. The...

“An experimental film structured as a kind of specialized playground in which highly representational images are freed from their duties to...

16mm, color, silent 24fps, 14m Fred Worden seems on occasion to have shown Part 1 of this film on its own, which runs about 5.5 minutes in length. ...

“A dramatic weather front led to images that in turn invoked memories of Bruce Baillie’s 1966 film of the same name. The passage of time...