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Morgan Fisher

Directing · Born 1942-01-01 · 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.

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Filmography

2018Another MovieDirector
2012Releasing Human Energiesnarration
2009Remembering Messiah of Evilhimself
2003()Director
1986Standard Gauge
1982Dorothy and Alan at Norma PlaceF.P.A.
1980Color BalanceDirector
1980Red Boxing Gloves / Orange Kitchen GlovesDirector
1979Protective ColorationDirector
1977On 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?Poet and Lecturer
1976Projection InstructionsDirector
1975Turning OverDirector
1975Eadweard Muybridge, ZoopraxographerWriter
1975Messiah of EvilTownsperson
1974Cue RollsDirector
1973Picture and Sound Rushes
1973The Wilkinson Household Fire AlarmDirector
1971Production Footage
1970Production StillsDirector
1968Documentary FootageDirector
1968Screening RoomDirector
1968The Director and His Actor Look at Footage Showing Preparations for an Unmade Film (2)Director
1968Phi PhenomenonDirector

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