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.
Messiah of Evil
as TownspersonA young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town...
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Remembering Messiah of Evil
as himselfDocumentary on the making of "Messiah of Evil," the surreal horror cult classic written by...
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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?
as Poet and Lecturer“Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation,...
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Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place
as F.P.A.In 1963, living a routine life on Norma Place in Los Angeles, recluse writer Dorothy Parker and...
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Releasing Human Energies
as narration“A film about control. A refinement of energy for purposes of conserving resources, materials,...
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Standard Gauge
as uncreditedStandard Gauge is an autobiographical film that examines Morgan Fisher’s work as an editor in...
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