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Fantasy Freedom

Fantasy Freedom (1999, 1’31)

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A post-mortem archaeology of the creative path followed by a non-existent artist into the cosmological eternal present.(A tissue of truthful lies documented by the Archive

Chromatic Aberration

Chromatic Aberration is a film which explores the early technologies of colour filmmaking drawn from the archives of George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. Featuring

8mm films from the 60’s: A Film, Smoke, Weeds

Early work in 8mm, prefigures later concerns, non narrative, non metaphoric, material constructs. some delightful alliterative sequences.

Five Films

Mike Dunford’s 8mm films were made within a short period of time between 1968 and 1971 whilst he was a sculpture student at Goldsmiths College.

Four Films

Mike Dunford’s 8mm films were made within a short period of time between 1968 and 1971 whilst he was a sculpture student at Goldsmiths College.

Ten Drawings

This is a collection of ten short films. For each film, 50 x 18″ strips of clear film were laid side by side to make

Primal

Primal is an abstract animation made directly onto the filmstrip. Through contact actions of rubbing and scraping, light is released from unprocessed fogged negative. Similarly

Grid

Circles in formation glide by, in this abstract direct animation film. Coloured inks were applied onto clear super-8 with felt-tip pens, using an old speaker

Calypso

Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures, accompanied by authentic calypso music.

Striations

Ink covered super-8 footage was scratched with a hacksaw blade to produce continuous travelling lines running over different backgrounds throughout the length of the film.

Get Set

A direct animation film made over a period of 3 years, using clear super-8 covered with ink and overlaid with various Letraset shapes. The titles

Optical Action

Found Super 8 footage is the basis of this flicker film which has been hand treated with ink and bleach. Every other frame has been

Compound Eye

A film shot with Super 8 using various distortion lenses in front of the camera. The footage has been treated with coloured inks and bleach

Crosshatch

The underlying chessboard image is derived from modified TV test pattern apparatus distorted by audio signals from a sinewave generator; filmed off a monitor with

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