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The Wilkinson Household Fire Alarm

The Wilkinson Household Fire Alarm

Morgan Fisher | USA | 1973 | 2' |

| IFFR 2009

Morgan Fisher has long explored the space that segregates art cinema from industrial movie making. The one-minute-thirty-second-long Wilkinson Household Fire Alarm, an eye-blink homage to Marcel Duchamp, is more obviously engaged with conceptualism than with studio manufacturing. What you see is what you hear.

Also in this combined programme

Projection Instructions
Signals: Size Matters
Study of the film process, from shooting to screening, with dry humour and precise observations.
Standard Gauge
Signals: Size Matters
A reservoir of forgotten film material forms a metaphorical biography of the film history and a partial autobiography of Fisher himself.
The Director and His Actor Look at Footage Showing Preparations for an Unmade Film (2)
Signals: Size Matters
A film in two parts: the rushes of a film and the men watching them.
Cue Rolls
Signals: Size Matters
Most works by Fisher have a direct link to the machinery of film. Here he analyses the cue rolls.
Production Stills
Signals: Size Matters
A compact making-of using Polaroids of a film that was never made.