Morgan Fisher

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.

On screen

  • Releasing Human Energies
  • Remembering Messiah of Evil
  • Standard Gauge
  • Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place
  • 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?
  • Messiah of Evil

Behind the camera

  • Another Movie
  • Standard Gauge
  • Color Balance
  • Protective Coloration
  • Projection Instructions
  • Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
  • Cue Rolls
  • The Wilkinson Household Fire Alarm

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