Morgan Fisher

Morgan Fisher

Birthday: 1942-01-01

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C

Biography: Morgan Fisher is an American experimental filmmaker and artist best known for his structuralist and minimalist films referencing the material processes of celluloid film and the means and methods of producing moving images, including the camera, the director and crew, and the editing process. Fisher's work has been noted for its relationship to the Southern California landscape and its architecture during a time when the region was staking an aesthetic and intellectual claim in the larger art world. Since the 1990s, Fisher has also been producing paintings and installation works. His work has been included in three Whitney Biennial exhibitions, 1985, 2004 and 2014. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987.

Movies

Standard Gauge
Standard Gauge

Standard Gauge is an autobiographical film that examines Morgan Fisher’s work as an editor in the fi...

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Picture and Sound Rushes
Picture and Sound Rushes

In a static medium shot a narrator seated at a table delivers an explanation of the combinations and...

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Production Footage
Production Footage

"The cinematic mechanism cannot be completely deconstructed without resort to other means of mechani...

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Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place
Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place

In 1963, living a routine life on Norma Place in Los Angeles, recluse writer Dorothy Parker and bise...

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Messiah of Evil
Messiah of Evil

A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of P...

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Releasing Human Energies
Releasing Human Energies

“A film about control. A refinement of energy for purposes of conserving resources, materials, impet...

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Remembering Messiah of Evil
Remembering Messiah of Evil

Documentary on the making of "Messiah of Evil," the surreal horror cult classic written by Willard H...

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On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?
On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?

“Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation, displac...

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