Sam Taylor-Johnson Movies
- 2004

David
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Simply lit from one light source (the lamp in the Madrid hotel room where it was shot) and shot in a single long take after Beckham finished...
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- 1999

Third Party
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As Harold Pinter famously said, Taylor-Johnson is 'the weasel under the cocktail cabinet' at this particular party. The erotic undercurrents between...
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- 1994

Pent-Up
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The interior monologues of five characters are made audible, giving way to a host of efforts on the part of the viewer to create connections or...
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- 2005

After Van Halen
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The graceful, ephemeral longing highlighted in this work is brought back down to earth with the title – after Van Halen's Jump. Single-screen...
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- 1998

Method in Madness
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1998 Sam Taylor-Wood video art piece featuring a dude goin' nuts
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- 1970

Middlesex
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- 2008

Three Minute Round
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Three Minute Round depicts the Klitschko brothers, Vitali and Wladimir, in the moments after defeating their rivals in separate championship boxing...
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- 2006

The Last Century
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In her film The Last Century (2006), what appears to be a static image of a group of people slowly reveals itself to be a real, filmed take, timed to...
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- 2016

The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
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Explores the hot-button issues around the striking gender gap in Hollywood. Both women and men in the entertainment industry share first-person...
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- 2002

Prelude in Air
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2002 Sam Taylor-Wood short video art piece featuring a man playing an imaginary string instrument.
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- 2019

A Million Little Pieces
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A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.
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- 1998

Noli Me Tangere
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The title of this piece is the well-known warning of Jesus to Mary Magdalene after his resurrection. It translates to Touch me not. This biblical...
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- 1995

Travesty of a Mockery
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A 10 minute film that depicts a man and a woman having an argument. This domestic drama is enacted simultaneously on two separate projected...
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- 1995

Brontosaurus
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Informed by cinematic and documentary traditions, Taylor-Johnson has been working with photography, film and video in London since the early 1990s....
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- 2007

That White Rush
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Sam Taylor-Wood says she can't believe the silly questions that people keep asking about her latest work, presented in the Ukrainian pavilion. That...
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- 2002

A Little Death
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Taylor-Johnson updates traditional still life imagery. What seems at first to be a quiet arrangement of a dead hare and peach on a table starts to...
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- 2006

Death Valley
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Death Valley is recognised as the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere and one of the hottst places on earth. The rocks tell a story of endless...
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- 1997

Sustaining the Crisis
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The Swedish actress Amanda Ooms, who appeared in several of Taylor-Johnson's early works, is here juxtaposed with a man who is filmed separately....
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- 2003

Strings
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A string quartet, dressed in black tie, seated in an arc that curves away from the viewer, play part of Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No. 2 in F major...
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