Most Popular Mike Dunford Trailers
Total trailers found: 28
Portraits Trailer (1972)
27 August 1972
Faces pass by in quickly edited, split-screen recordings. A 'structuralist' film in which the film material itself plays an important role.
Windless Closure Trailer (1993)
01 January 1993
Another approach to the same complex of story and videographic operations. This time the videographic work takes primacy and is almost wholly abstract.
Four Films Trailer (1969)
01 January 1969
Early experimentations with film by a materialist sculptor and future structural filmmaker.
Culture of Domination Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
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 American ruling class, but which had produced social welfare and full employment for the 50’s and into the 60’s when a combination of the cost of the Vietnam war and the Arab oil shock produced an economic crash.
Scratch Trailer (1973)
01 January 1973
Scratch begins as a standard 8 film fragment, originally filmed in our 60’s basement kitchen, and reprojected as a loop 5 times with a repeated coda of junk and glitch footage, onto a ground glass screen, refilmed in black and white on 16mm film stock.
True Love Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
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.
Five Films Trailer (1969)
01 January 1969
Five experimentations with film as a medium, a physical object and a record of social reality.
Tautology Trailer (1973)
01 January 1973
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.
Still-Life with Pear Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
'Still-Life with Pear' takes a subversive position towards the illusion inherent in the film-image, its apparent transparency to representation, but rather than dealing with this by countering with strategies of foregrounding the actual materiality of the film-strip, the narrative construct is subverted within the film with a counter-narrative.
Arbitrary Limits Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
Arbitrary Limits is a documentation, and a documentary, of the making of itself, a self-reflexive narrative that encompasses the relationship between film-maker and sound recordist, and their relation to the ongoing film, a commentary on the film’s production, and the gradual exposition, through asides, and partial explanations through the film, of what the film set-up, and its eventual notional outcome should be.
SYNC.SND Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
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 flattening the representation from image to projected filmstrip.
Scratches No. 2 Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
Part of the Logical Propositions series. 16mm, colour, sound
Tree Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
A small tree filmed on Hampstead Heath is printed out and re-edited at the Film Coop to form a formal abstract sequence bracketed by juddering naturalism.
Silver Surfer Trailer (1972)
22 April 1972
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 surfer.
Part-Time Virgin Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
"After the standard 8 work this was my first 16mm film. As a film it shows all of the tendencies and concerns that preoccupied my ideas in film, and then video up until the present day.
Slinklip Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
Part of the Logical Propositions series, 16mm, colour, sound
Our Dreams Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
Shot in America but edited in the UK, this and NEW YORK STREETS formed a more politicised, agit-prop, kind of production, but closer to the cut ups and scratch video of London Video Arts of the time, and still with some emphasis on formal editing strategies and disruptive soundtracks of the earlier film work.
Lens Tissue Trailer (1973)
01 January 1973
All part of a series called LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS. The simple aim of this series was to didactically select several elements of film naturalism, which work to create the illusion of representation on screen, and make each the subject of a self-descriptive film using that element as subject and demonstration.
Nohi Abassi Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
Marks another stage of work which I called “distributed narrative”. In this a strand of thought, an idea or a story, and related or unrelated material that adds or conflicts is constantly re-presented over the course of the work, to create in the totality of the viewing a synthesis that is somewhat open, mediated but not fixed.
Deep Space. Trailer (1973)
01 January 1973
All part of a series called LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS. The simple aim of this series was to didactically select several elements of film naturalism, which work to create the illusion of representation on screen, and make each the subject of a self-descriptive film using that element as subject and demonstration.
One million unemployed in winter '71 Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
A film on unemployment that invites the spectator to resist capitalism and the consumption society, made by Mike Dunford, who was unemployed at the time, with the intention of providing a catalyst for discussion at Claimants Union meetings.
In the Dark Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
This film came after Arbitrary Limits, and expanded the aspect of the social context of the film’s production to essentially dominate the latter half of the film, and derail the initial formal plan for filming almost completely.
interregnum Trailer (2018)
01 March 2018
In 2008 de-regulated globalised finance capital brought the world to the brink of disaster. Its ideology of market fundamentalism and unconstrained corruption proved to be utterly bankrupt and a recipe for the destruction of the social order as well as capitalist accumulation.
Airport Noise Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
"In 1983 I was working in San Francisco as a housepainter and much of the time we worked in Burlingame, south of the city.
Very Funny Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
Using video colorising, pushing u-matic tape –tracking close to breakdown, and slo-mo, a video devoid of narrative structure, interspersed with inserted interpretations on the title and music track, a dance of edited movement in camera, and edit suite.
We live in interesting times Trailer (2015)
01 January 2015
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 take repeated a number of times, and therefore a different, but same repetition.
Jigsaw Feeling / New York Streets Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
Footage of street life in the Bronx and Manhattan, with a continuous soundtrack of the constant crime statistics, and the recent Reagan invasion of Grenada (to fight the Cuban threat to American students and an airstrip).
