Morgan Fisher Movies

A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dune, which seems to be under the influence...

Documentary on the making of "Messiah of Evil," the surreal horror cult classic written by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, directed by Willard Huyck....

Thom Andersen's hour-long documentary adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical reflection. Muybridge's photographic...

Morgan Fisher’s Screening Room (1968–) is a tracking shot of the movie theatre in which the film is exhibited, and thus must be remade...

A static close-up of a clock. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

Morgan Fisher has long explored the space that segregates art cinema from industrial movie making. The one-minute-thirty-second-long Wilkinson...

Naturalness willfully corrupted by inevitable self-consciousness, unwittingly corrupted by unavoidable naturalness, a role played with incredible...

Standard Gauge is an autobiographical film that examines Morgan Fisher’s work as an editor in the film industry. The film goes through scraps...

Cue Rolls suggests that the particularity of cinema is its interface of rigorous mechanical equipment and fallible human process, which is dramatised...

“A film about control. A refinement of energy for purposes of conserving resources, materials, impetus, potential, so they might all be...

Experimental short shot on reel to reel video tape and preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

A 1980 video art piece by American artist Morgan Fisher, a multi-projection work featuring floating spheres of different colors (green, red, blue)...

An actor and director screen a film and comment on it.

In 1963, living a routine life on Norma Place in Los Angeles, recluse writer Dorothy Parker and bisexual husband Alan Campbell recall their...

Regrettably, the labour of projectionists is usually only considered by the audience when they ‘screw up’. This film offers an...

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

“Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation, displacement, representation by opposites, punning...

Red Boxing Gloves / Orange Kitchen Gloves was shot in 1980 in Polavision, an instant movie format that the videocassette made obsolete. The work is...

Protective Coloration shows Fisher seated at a mottled table. He wears short-sleeved hospital garb, surgical green ‘scrubs’. Nose-clips...