Sam Taylor-Johnson Movies

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...

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...

As four people lip-synch to the grand, passionate sounds of the Richard Strauss opera Elektra, the contrast between the banality of modern life and...

2003 Sam Taylor-Wood video art work featuring a tap dancer

Reminiscent of Warhol, Breach depicts a girl in ever-heightening grief, but with the sound of her tears removed. The person inflicting her agony is...

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

The figures in this piece are the fashion designer Bella Freud, daughter of Lucian and granddaughter of Sigmund, and her husband, the writer James...

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...

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...

1996 Sam Taylor-Wood video art piece focusing on a naked singer

2001 Sam Taylor video art piece featuring rotting fruit in time lapse

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

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...

1998 Sam Taylor-Wood video art piece featuring a dude goin' nuts

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

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

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

1999 Sam Taylor-Wood video art piece featuring a dancer in agony