Morgan Fisher

Morgan Fisher

Born: January 1, 1942
in Washington, D.C
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 for Morgan Fisher...

Releasing Human Energies
Title: Releasing Human Energies
Character: narration
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
“A film about control. A refinement of energy for purposes of conserving resources, materials, impetus, potential, so they might all be narrowly channeled toward an unquestioned goal of maximum profit with minimum waste. Capitalism, in this example, as a process of understanding how to make use of someone as efficiently as possible to get the most out of them that is desired. Instructions for keeping people on task.” –Mark Toscano
bee
Remembering Messiah of Evil
Title: Remembering Messiah of Evil
Character: himself
Released: October 27, 2009
Type: Movie
Documentary on the making of "Messiah of Evil," the surreal horror cult classic written by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, directed by Willard Huyck. Includes interviews with Huyck and Katz as well as cinematographer Stephen M. Katz, editor Billy Weber, co-editor and actor Morgan Fisher.
bee
Standard Gauge
Title: Standard Gauge
Released: February 14, 1986
Type: Movie
Standard Gauge is an autobiographical film that examines Morgan Fisher’s work as an editor in the film industry. The film goes through scraps of rejected material along with commentary on the meaning of all the scrapped images. This film is an account and critique of the processes of meaning within film production through an examination of both materialism and the institution of film itself.
bee
Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place
Title: Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place
Character: F.P.A.
Released: April 24, 1982
Type: Movie
In 1963, living a routine life on Norma Place in Los Angeles, recluse writer Dorothy Parker and bisexual husband Alan Campbell recall their often-rocky relationship, started thirty years earlier.
bee
Picture and Sound Rushes
Title: Picture and Sound Rushes
Released: September 11, 1973
Type: Movie
In a static medium shot a narrator seated at a table delivers an explanation of the combinations and permutations which the sound and picture elements of the conventional monochromatic sound motion picture afford, as the film itself undergoes them.
bee
Messiah of Evil
Title: Messiah of Evil
Character: Townsperson
Released: May 2, 1973
Type: Movie
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 of a mysterious undead cult.
bee
Production Footage
Title: Production Footage
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
"The cinematic mechanism cannot be completely deconstructed without resort to other means of mechanical image reproduction; a double system of representation is required; the apparent naturalness of the cinematic sign must be put into question by other indexical signs." —Thom Andersen. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.