Film Without a Name (1974) 16 mm colour 23 mins.
A film shot in the Lincoln countryside and constructed in the optical printer by Stuart Pound, whose work in this area of independent cinema is unique in Britain, although it has marked affinities with West Coast Americans like Pat O'Neill and Scott Bartlett. Pound's approach resembles O'Neill's in that he takes essentially simple, unpretentious imagery and uses travelling mattes and other printing techniques to transform it without seeking to impose any kind of 'drama' on the material; the results, here as elsewhere in his work, are more painterly than dramatic. This particular film is didactic, insofar as it illustrates how film techniques transmute the real world into an abstraction of itself, but it engages most strongly through its rhythm: more particularly, through its play with the tension between the lazy, pastoral images and the ever-quickening rhythms of the forms that they compose.
Tony Rayns, British Film Institute: Monthly Film Bulletin, London