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

Messiah of Evil

Remembering Messiah of Evil

Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place

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?

Standard Gauge

Releasing Human Energies

All Movies (8)

• Releasing Human Energies2012 · as narration
• Remembering Messiah of Evil2009 · as himself
• Standard Gauge1986
• Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place1982 · as 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?1977 · as Poet and Lecturer
• Messiah of Evil1975 · as Townsperson
• Picture and Sound Rushes1973
• Production Footage1971