Morgan Fisher

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Born 1942-01-01 Washington, D.C

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.

Movies (8)

Messiah of Evil
6.3

Messiah of Evil

1975Movie6.3
Standard Gauge
6.3

Standard Gauge

1986Movie6.3
Picture and Sound Rushes

Picture and Sound Rushes

1973Movie
Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place

Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place

1982Movie
Remembering Messiah of Evil

Remembering Messiah of Evil

2009Movie
Releasing Human Energies

Releasing Human Energies

2012Movie
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?
5.1

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?

1977Movie5.1
Production Footage

Production Footage

1971Movie