Monday 12 September 2005, 19.00
and Saturday 17 September 2005, 20.00

This programme of Morgan Fisher's playful, self-referential films includes works such as Standard Gauge (1984), a repository of abandoned footage in which the blunt description of an industry standard flows into profound musings on the film industry and the ruthlessness of change. Defunct television episodes, ‘China girls’, glorious frames that resemble El Lissitzky and Mark Rothko paintings, Jean-Luc Godard, Roger Corman, Edgar G Ulmer and Leonard Kastle combine to illustrate a metaphorical biography of the history of film and a partial autobiography of Fisher himself.

Morgan Fisher introduces the screening on 17 September.

programme duration approx 60 min

The Director and His Actor Look at Footage Showing Preparations for an Unmade Film (2), 1968, 15 min

The Wilkinson Household Fire Alarm, 1973, 1'30

Cue Rolls, 1974, 5'30 min

Projection Instructions, 1976, 4 min

Standard Gauge, 1984, 35 min

Curated by Chrissie Iles from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended

    

This event is related to the Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970 exhibition