The four decades of work that comprise avant-gardist Fred Worden’s cinematic explorations are a constantly evolving set of collisions (and collusions) involving images and abstractions that range from satirical jabs at the self-seriousness of experimental film culture, sincere tributes and contemplations of the medium, or pure jolts of pulsating visual energy—but most often, all of the above. Throughout his artistic life and career as a professor, Worden has found himself at the epicenter of creative communities on the west coast (where he graduated from CalArts and made early collaborations with Chris Langdon), the east coast (evidenced in his longtime friendships with the likes of Ken Jacobs and Ernie Gehr), and in between (as a member of the Criss-Cross artists group from Boulder).

Ian Hugo: The Dangerous Telescope
November 27, 2024, 8PM
Innis College, Room 222

Lynne Sachs: For Narcisa Hirsch - Screening & Talk
Followed by Hirsch’s double-projection Rumi
Q&A w/ Lynne Sachs - In Person only

Microscope is excited to welcome back to the gallery filmmaker and artist Lynne Sachs for a heartfelt tribute to Narcisa Hirsch in connection with Hirsch’s current exhibition at the gallery.

A rare screening on 35mm of Ottomar Domnick’s 1957 little known avantgarde film. Visually informed by abstraction with a complex soundtrack mixing a poly-voiced commentary scripted by Hans Magnus Enzensberger with music by Duke Ellington and avantgarde composer Winfried Zillig, the film turns the increasing alienation and paranoia of a man in the urban reality of West Germany’s post war economic miracle into a profoundly Kafkaesque experience. Introduced by Martin Brady.