**STROBE WARNING. Most of the films in this program contain intense flicker effects unsafe for those sensitive to light.**

Like many other moving-image artists of his generation at the turn of the millennium—including the aforementioned Ken Jacobs, Ernie Gehr, and Andrew Noren—Worden successfully developed a distinct cinematic language for the digital age. Rather than merely replicating what he had achieved with 16mm film, he embraced the possibilities of the new medium, pushing its technology to the limit with retina-shredding experiments—some explicitly recalling cinema’s silent roots (HERE), others seemingly designed to induce splitting headaches (EVERYDAY BAD DREAM)—that are as forward-thinking as they are incendiary. In particular, BLUE POLE(S), the program’s closer, blazes with the intensity of a constellation of twinkling stars.

Full lineup here: https://www.spectacletheater.com/fred-worden/#fw3