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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.

Known for

Releasing Human Energies
Releasing Human Energies
2012 • narration
Remembering Messiah of Evil
Remembering Messiah of Evil
2009 • himself
Standard Gauge
Standard Gauge
1986
Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place
Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place
1982 • F.P.A.
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?
1977 • Poet and Lecturer
Messiah of Evil
Messiah of Evil
1975 • Townsperson
Picture and Sound Rushes
1973
Production Footage
1971

Full filmography

Messiah of Evil
Messiah of Evil
1975 • Townsperson
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Morgan Fisher – Biography, Known For & Filmography