Morgan Fisher Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

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

P. Adams Sitney, Professor of Visual Art at Princeton University, wrote a short essay for Artforum International "Medium Shots: the films of Morgan...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...