Morgan Fisher
Directing
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.
Filmography 22
Movies (22)
Another Movie2018Directing
Releasing Human Energies2012narration
Remembering Messiah of Evil2009himself- ()2003Directing
Standard Gauge1986
Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place1982F.P.A.
Color Balance1980Directing- Red Boxing Gloves / Orange Kitchen Gloves1980Directing
Protective Coloration1979Directing
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?1977Poet and Lecturer
Projection Instructions1976Directing- Turning Over1975Directing
Messiah of Evil1975Townsperson
Cue Rolls1974Directing- Picture and Sound Rushes1973
The Wilkinson Household Fire Alarm1973Directing- Production Footage1971
- Production Stills1970Directing
- Documentary Footage1968Directing
- Phi Phenomenon1968Directing
- The Director and His Actor Look at Footage Showing Preparations for an Unmade Film (2)1968Directing
- Screening Room1968Directing