2026

Tracing Paths Through Spacetime

Sam Burford

Blade Runner Quadtych, (2024)
Styrofoam and acrylic
Dimensions: 60 x 115.5 cm, 23 5/8 x 45 1/2 in
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Painterly temporal scan of Jitter, redacted from the Wizard of Oz., (2024)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 45.5 x 58 cm, 17 7/8 x 22 7/8 in
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Un Chien Andalou, (2024)
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 112.5 x 77 cm, 44 1/4 x 30 1/4 in
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Monochrome Dr Strangelove, (2024)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 75 x 130 cm, 29 1/2 x 51 1/8 in
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Dr Strangelove Study, (2024)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 37.5 x 103 cm, 14 3/4 x 40 1/2 in
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Clockwork Orange, (2023)

Dimensions: 156cm x 76cm x 15cm
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Star Wars Fossilised Time, (2014)
Silicone
Dimensions: 40cm x 46cm x 40cm
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Switchback, Temporal Trace of the London Olympics, (2012)
Oil on Treated Perspex
Dimensions: 130cm x 133cm
This project began with the tracing of cinematic time using bespoke hand built cameras.

Inception - folding time and space - cinema as a phenomenological force, (2015)
Polylactic Acid, Photographic Emulsion
Dimensions: 40cm x 12cm x 10cm
These transforms are intended to explore the conceptual territory revealed through the continuing dematerialisation of cinema.

Blade Runner Devotional, (2019)
Mixed Media
Dimensions: 39in x 20in x 2in

Blue Emerald Castle - Wizard of Oz, (2015)
PLA, Copper Sulphate
Dimensions: 10cm x 17cm x 4cm
Burford states that his work endeavours to bring ‘a new thought for’ the cinematic object.

Star Wars IV Curling Over Self, (2010)
Hand printed film
Dimensions: 56cm x 80cm

Last Year at Marienbad - 359 brushes, Timelapse painting, (2014)
Oil on Treated Perspex
Dimensions: 162cm x 122cm

Dinosaur. Installation at Parasol Unit, (2013)
Two Jurassic Park DVDs, Projector, DVD Player, Surround Sound System
Dimensions: 200cm x 30cm x 70cm

Youngblood - Homage to Structuralist Cinema, (2018)
Oil on Linen
Dimensions: 66in x 32in
The resulting artworks could be read as contemporary hybrids that combine post digital aesthetics with the experimental, materialist concerns that emerged from 20th century Structuralist film-makers and artists.

Swan, Citizen Kane as Expanded Cinema (2008)
Archival Image, Perspex, Aluminium, Steel
Dimensions: 140cm x 140cm x 45cm

Seeing Through Randomness, (2019)
Installation
Dimensions: Variable

Tie, (2008)
Treated Perspex, Oil Paint, Steel Bolt
Dimensions: 120cm x 120cm

All Those Moments Lost In Time - Blade Runner, (2010)
Hand printed film, Lightbox
Dimensions: 55cm x 77cm x 12cm

Rear Window (1954), (2013)
Polylactic Acid, Aluminium, Steel
Dimensions: 141cm x 72cm x 10cm

Total Apocalypse Frenzy, (2020)
Resin, ink, pigment
Dimensions: 14cm x 12cm x 15cm

De-temporal Cinema Part I - Atrophied Bullitt and the Sea of Forms, (2020)
Aluminium, Perspex, LED, resin, motors, steel
Dimensions: 150cm x 50cm x 100cm

De-temporal Cinema Part II - Petrified Forest, (2020)
Aluminium, Perspex, resin,steel
Dimensions: 150cm x 50cm x 100cm

Trace (after Wylie et al.), (2018)
Tektronix Type 453 Oscilloscope, Pewter
Dimensions: 38cm x 60cm x 35cm
All images © Sam Burford 2026. All rights reserved.

Bullitt Spacetime - After Sterne, (2015)
Polylactic Acid, Aluminium
Dimensions: 152cm x 120cm x 120cm

Icarus - from North by Northwest, (2009)
Archival Print, Perspex, Aluminium, Neodyumium, Steel
Dimensions: 220cm x 58cm

Black Bass - from North by Northwest, (2019)
Mixed Media
Dimensions: 33cm x 28cm

Ballet Mechanique (Purple and Green), (2019)
C-Type Print face mounted on Perspex
Dimensions: 37cm x 38cm

Doppleturm, (detail) (2019)
Mixed Media
Dimensions: 9.6in x 13in

If cinema were a place - Singing in the Rain, (detail) (2015)
Photograph by Sam Burford
Dimensions: Variable

Landmark, (2009)
Bronze
Dimensions: 160cm x 260cm x 160cm