Thom Andersen's remarkable and sadly neglected hour-long documentary adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical...

A static close-up of a clock. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

In a static medium shot a narrator seated at a table delivers an explanation of the combinations and permutations which the sound and picture...

Standard Gauge is an autobiographical film that examines Morgan Fisher’s work as an editor in the film industry. The film goes through scraps of...

P. Adams Sitney, Professor of Visual Art at Princeton University, wrote a short essay for Artforum International "Medium Shots: the films of Morgan...

Regrettably, the labour of projectionists is usually only considered by the audience when they ‘screw up’. This film offers an alternative...

An actor and director screen a film and comment on it.

Morgan Fisher has long explored the space that segregates art cinema from industrial movie making. The one-minute-thirty-second-long Wilkinson...

As its title indicates, the subject in Production Stills is a series of production stills of a film that was never made, and that at the same time...

Experimental short shot on reel to reel video tape and preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

Protective Coloration shows Fisher seated at a mottled table. He wears short-sleeved hospital garb, surgical green ‘scrubs’. Nose-clips block his...

A 1980 video art piece by American artist Morgan Fisher, a multi-projection work featuring floating spheres of different colors (green, red, blue)...

Cue Rolls suggests that the particularity of cinema is its interface of rigorous mechanical equipment and fallible human process, which is...

Morgan Fisher’s Screening Room (1968–) is a tracking shot of the movie theatre in which the film is exhibited, and thus must be remade each time it...

Red Boxing Gloves / Orange Kitchen Gloves was shot in 1980 in Polavision, an instant movie format that the videocassette made obsolete. The work is...

"The cinematic mechanism cannot be completely deconstructed without resort to other means of mechanical image reproduction; a double system of...

Naturalness willfully corrupted by inevitable self-consciousness, unwittingly corrupted by unavoidable naturalness, a role played with incredible...