Morgan Fisher
Director
Biography
Morgan Fisher is an American experimental filmmaker and artist best known for his structuralist and minimalist films referencing the material processes of celluloid film and the means and methods of producing moving images, including the camera, the director and crew, and the editing process. Fisher's work has been noted for its relationship to the Southern California landscape and its architecture during a time when the region was staking an aesthetic and intellectual claim in the larger art world. Since the 1990s, Fisher has also been producing paintings and installation works. His work has been included in three Whitney Biennial exhibitions, 1985, 2004 and 2014. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987.
As Director
Standard Gauge
1986
Production Stills
1970
Protective Coloration
1979
Projection Instructions
1976
Documentary Footage
1968
Picture and Sound Rushes
1973
Red Boxing Gloves / Orange Kitchen Gloves
1980
Production Footage
1971
Screening Room
1968
The Director and His Actor Look at Footage Showing Preparations for an Unmade Film (2)
1968
Phi Phenomenon
1968Filmography
Messiah of Evil
as Townsperson 1975
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?
as Poet and Lecturer 1977
Standard Gauge
1986
Picture and Sound Rushes
1973
Production Footage
1971
Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place
as F.P.A. 1982
Releasing Human Energies
as narration 2012