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Morgan Fisher
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.
Known For
Film
Messiah of Evil
Townsperson
1975
Film
Standard Gauge
1986
Film
Remembering Messiah of Evil
himself
2009
Film
Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place
F.P.A.
1982
Film
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?
Poet and Lecturer
1977
Film
Picture and Sound Rushes
1973
Film
Releasing Human Energies
narration
2012
Film
Production Footage
1971
Filmography
2012FilmReleasing Human Energiesas narration2009FilmRemembering Messiah of Evilas himself1986FilmStandard Gauge1982FilmDorothy and Alan at Norma Placeas F.P.A.1977FilmOn 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 Lecturer1975FilmMessiah of Evilas Townsperson1973FilmPicture and Sound Rushes1971FilmProduction Footage