Fred Worden, filmmaker, has been involved in experimental cinema since the 1970s. His work has been screened at The Museum of Modern Art, in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, The Centre Pompidou, in Paris, The Pacific Film Archive, The New York Film Festival

New York Film Festival

The New York Film Festival has been a major film festival since it began in 1963 in New York. The films are selected by the Film Society of Lincoln Center...

, The London Film Festival

London Film Festival

The BFI London Film Festival is the UK's largest public film event, screening more than 300 features, documentaries and shorts from almost 50 countries. The festival, , currently in its 54th year, is run every year in the second half of October under the umbrella of the British Film Institute...

, The Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Toronto Film Festival, and The Hong Kong International Film Festival

Hong Kong International Film Festival

The Hong Kong International Film Festival is a platform for filmmakers, film professionals and filmgoers from all over the world to launch and experience new film work. There are seminars, conferences, exhibitions, and parties celebrating the festival community...

. He was an editor for Criss-Cross

Criss-Cross

Criss-Cross was an artist's cooperative that formed in Colorado in the early 1970s. Having evolved out of Drop City, the 1960s artists' community, C-C focused on issues surrounding "pattern and structure" and became associated with the 70's art movement "P&D" .In 1974, the five founders, Gene...

 Art Communications from the '70s through the '80s and his writings have appeared in Cinematograph. His work is included in in the Stan Brakhage

Stan Brakhage

James Stanley Brakhage , better known as Stan Brakhage, was an American non-narrative filmmaker who is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th century experimental film....

 Collection, the Austrian Museum, The Centre Pompidou and others. Worden's work develops out of his interest in intermittent projection as the source of cinema's primordial powers: how a stream of still pictures passing through a projector at a speed meant to overwhelm the eyes might be harnessed to purposes other than representation or naturalism.

He received his MFA in film, from the California Institute of the Arts

California Institute of the Arts

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16mm films

THROBS (1972, color, sound, 7 min.)

NOW, YOU CAN DO ANYTHING (with Chris Langdon

Chris Langdon

Chris Langdon is a Los Angeles-based artist who produced a large body of work in many media, including painting, sculpture, graphics, assemblage, photography, film, and video....

, 1973, color, sound, 6min.)

VENUSVILLE (with Chris Langdon

Chris Langdon

Chris Langdon is a Los Angeles-based artist who produced a large body of work in many media, including painting, sculpture, graphics, assemblage, photography, film, and video....

, 1973, color, sound, 10min.)

FOUR FRAMES (1976, color, silent, 10min.)

VUDOO (ca.1977-78, color, silent, 14min.)

PANOVISION (1979, color, silent, 11min.)

VENETIAN BLIND (ca.1979, color, sound, 10min.)

TERRIFIC MEASURES (1980, color, silent, 5.5min.)

INSOMNIA (1981, b/w, silent, 6min.)

IN & OUT (1983, color, silent, 4min.)

HERE, THERE, NOW, LATER (1983, color, silent, 3min.)

PLOTTING THE GREY SCALE: 2 OR 3 QUICK TRAVERSES (1985, b/w, silent, 7min.)

LURE (1986, color, sound, 7min.)

HOW THE HELL I RIPPED JACK GOLDSTEIN’S PAINTING IN THE ELEVATOR (1986, b/w, sound, 23min.)

BOULEVARD (1989, b/w, sound, 9min.)

BREAKOUT (1990, color, sound, 10min.)

INTRODUCTION TO THE SECRET SOCIETY (1992, color & b/w, sound, 9min.)

THIS OLD HOUSE (1993)

ONE (1998, b/w, silent, 25min.)

AUTOMATIC WRITING 2 (2000, b/w, silent, 12min.)

THE OR CLOUD (2001, b/w, silent, 7min.)

IF ONLY (2003, b/w, silent, 7min.)

Digital works

AMONGST THE PERSUADED (2004, 23min.)

BLUE POLE(S) (2005, 20min.)

HERE (2005, 11min.)

EVERYDAY BAD DREAM (2006, 6min.)

TIME'S ARROW (2007, 11min.)

NORTH SHORE (2007, 11min.)

THE AFTER LIFE (VICTORIA'S SECRET VERSION) (2007, 15min.)

WHEN WORLDS COLLUDE (2008, 13min.)

1859 (2008, 11min.)

ALL MY LIFE (2009, 20min.)

Sources

• http://www.fredworden.com

• Invisible Cinema

Fred Worden SOUND AND MOTION: GOING PLACES,
invisiblecinema.typepad.com/invisible_cinema/index.rdf

• San Francisco Cinematheque : *Energy and Deep Abstraction: The Graphic Cinema of Fred Worden.

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