One

Fred Worden | USA | 1998 | 28' |

| IFFR 1999

A world in a grain of sand (as William Blake said). And proof that the extraordinary machine of cinema has many faces. In One Worden celebrates the essentials of cinema (dark and light) and enlarges just one frame of film to create a an endlessly dynamic dance of abstract form that plays upon the perceptions of eye and mind. Extreme and groundbreaking purity.

Also in this combined programme

Sweep

Negative and positive, hand-treated images clash and flash on a trip through the city.
main programme short
Mind’s Eye

Hypnotic short travelogue through land and spirit.
main programme short
Circular Objects in Several Movements

Warm and fragile abstraction. Filmic and musical variations on a round form.
main programme short
Filter Beds

Black & white meditation on threads and twigs, the wind, planes and birds.
main programme short
Variations

Form and content have reached their equilibrium in Variations. An influential work on transformative sleep, and a breakthrough.
main programme short