Fred Worden, one of the US avant-garde’s chief masters of irony, has made over two dozen films since the early 1970s, first on 16mm, and then starting in 2004 on DV. His work centres on experimenting with the sluggishness of human perception: in works like Throbs (1973), Here, There, Now, Later (1983) and When Worlds Collude (2008) he seeks the poetry in pure flow – there’s something comforting in the fact that one ultimately does manage to find meaning in Worden’s radical minimalism.