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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

16mm, bw, sound, 11m There are two soundtrack versions of this film, referred to as the “Barbara Bode track” and the “John Fernie...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A short by Fred Worden

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

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...

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

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