American Originals Now: Fred Worden
December 11 & 17, 16:30h
National Gallery of Art
Fourth Street and Constitution Ave., NW, 20565 Washington DC

Since the 1970s, Fred Worden has been making experimental films primarily to examine "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." With wholehearted revelry in cinematic illusion and a commitment to kinetic abstractions, he produces short films and digital videos that draw attention to subjective perceptual play through the manipulation of visual phenomena. Assistant professor of art at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Worden has produced work exhibited at festivals and venues in Paris, Hong Kong, Rotterdam, London, New York, and Toronto.

After Hours in the Cerebral Kitchen
Fred Worden in person
Saturday, December 17, 16:30h
After Hours in the Cerebral Kitchen is the title Fred Worden has given to a malleable artist's talk/lecture he has designed to contextualize his interest in the moving image and human perception. Following the presentation, Worden will show one of his early 16 mm nonfiction films, How the Hell I Ripped Jack Goldstein's Painting in the Elevator (1989, 22 minutes), and offer a rare opportunity to view and discuss his current work in progress, tentatively titled All or Nothing. (Total running time 80 minutes)