Morgan Fisher Movies

  • 1974
    Messiah of Evil

    Messiah of Evil

    Messiah of Evil

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

    Messiah of Evil
  • 1977
    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?

    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?

    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?

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

    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?
  • 2009
    Remembering Messiah of Evil

    Remembering Messiah of Evil

    Remembering Messiah of Evil

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

    Remembering Messiah of Evil
  • 1975
    Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

    Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

    Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

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    Thom Andersen's remarkable and sadly neglected hour-long documentary adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical reflection....

    Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
  • 1968
    The Director and His Actor Look at Footage Showing Preparations for an Unmade Film (2)

    The Director and His Actor Look at Footage Showing Preparations for an Unmade Film (2)

    The Director and His Actor Look at Footage Showing Preparations for an Unmade Film (2)

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

    The Director and His Actor Look at Footage Showing Preparations for an Unmade Film (2)
  • 2003
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    P. Adams Sitney, Professor of Visual Art at Princeton University, wrote a short essay for Artforum International "Medium Shots: the films of Morgan...

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  • 1982
    Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place

    Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place

    Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place

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

    Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place
  • 1973
    Picture and Sound Rushes

    Picture and Sound Rushes

    Picture and Sound Rushes

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

    Picture and Sound Rushes
  • 2012
    Releasing Human Energies

    Releasing Human Energies

    Releasing Human Energies

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

    Releasing Human Energies
  • 1973
    The Wilkinson Household Fire Alarm

    The Wilkinson Household Fire Alarm

    The Wilkinson Household Fire Alarm

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

    The Wilkinson Household Fire Alarm
  • 1976
    Projection Instructions

    Projection Instructions

    Projection Instructions

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

    Projection Instructions
  • 1968
    Phi Phenomenon

    Phi Phenomenon

    Phi Phenomenon

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

    Phi Phenomenon
  • 1986
    Standard Gauge

    Standard Gauge

    Standard Gauge

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

    Standard Gauge
  • 1970
    Production Stills

    Production Stills

    Production Stills

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    As its title indicates, the subject in Production Stills is a series of production stills of a film that was never made, and that at the same time is...

    Production Stills
  • 2018
    Another Movie

    Another Movie

    Another Movie

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    Another Movie
  • 1975
    Turning Over

    Turning Over

    Turning Over

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

    Turning Over
  • 1979
    Protective Coloration

    Protective Coloration

    Protective Coloration

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

    Protective Coloration
  • 1980
    Color Balance

    Color Balance

    Color Balance

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

    Color Balance
  • 1974
    Cue Rolls

    Cue Rolls

    Cue Rolls

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

    Cue Rolls
  • 1968
    Screening Room

    Screening Room

    Screening Room

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    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...

    Screening Room