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.

Filmography

View Messiah of Evil
Messiah of Evil

Messiah of Evil

1975Film
6.2
View Remembering Messiah of Evil
Remembering Messiah of Evil

Remembering Messiah of Evil

2009Film0
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Releasing Human Energies

Releasing Human Energies

2012Film0
View Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place
Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place

Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place

1982Film0
View 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?
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?

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?

1977Film
4.9
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No Image

Production Footage

1971Film0
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No Image

Picture and Sound Rushes

1973Film0
View Standard Gauge
Standard Gauge

Standard Gauge

1986Film
6.3