The Wilkinson Household Fire Alarm
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
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Projection Instructions
Study of the film process, from shooting to screening, with dry humour and precise observations.
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Standard Gauge
A reservoir of forgotten film material forms a metaphorical biography of the film history and a partial autobiography of Fisher himself.
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The Director and His Actor Look at Footage Showing Preparations for an Unmade Film (2)
A film in two parts: the rushes of a film and the men watching them.
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Cue Rolls
Most works by Fisher have a direct link to the machinery of film. Here he analyses the cue rolls.
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Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1973
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 2"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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