Holly Fisher

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Holly Fisher received a B.A. in Asian Art History at Columbia University in 1964, and a M.A. in Cinema Studies at New York University in 1982. She lives and works in Tribeca, New York City. Fisher has been active since the mid-sixties as an independent filmmaker, printmaker, teacher, and film editor, including Oscar nominated documentary Who Killed Vincent Chin?. Her experimental short works and long-form essay films are explorations in time, memory and perception. They have been screened in museums and film festivals worldwide including Whitney Museum Biennials; The Tribeca Film Festival; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Film Forum, Japan; and two world premieres in The Forum of the Berlinale, Germany. She has received multiple grants from The Jerome Foundation, NYSCA, CAPS, and The American Film Institute, among others. Her silent film Rushlight won the Grand Prize in the 1985 Black Maria Film Festival, and her feature Bullets for Breakfast received “Best Experimental Film Award” at the 1992 Ann Arbor Film Festival. In 1995, the Museum of Modern Art, New York presented the solo retrospective The Films of Holly Fisher. In recent years, Fisher has made works from film and amateur iPhone sources, looped for gallery and storefront installation, as well as for exhibition in conjunction with her ongoing archival digital print projects. Her current work-in-progress, Out of the Blue, is a long-form experimental essay, structured within a series of cloud video studies, filmed with an iPhone on a flight between Berlin and New York. This project will be integrated into Thin/Ice (work-in-progress), which began as a daily filming practice in a small pond behind the refurbished mill where she was living for several years. Both projects will include resonant imagery pulled from Fisher’s video diary, edited within the semi-static imagery of clouds and pond. Thin/Ice integrates issues of (family) suicide and global warming; it will be Fisher’s first large-scale installation project and is scheduled for completion in late 2020.

Film	Credit
b e d e v i l e d2021 · Director	Director
Out of the Blue2021 · Director	Director
Softshoe for Bartok2021 · Director	Director
Split Infinities: Self-Portrait Reconsidered2017 · Director	Director
Ruffled Feathers2016 · Director	Director
2 X 22016 · Director	Director
A Question of Sunlight2015 · Director	Director
Ghost Dance for a New Century2015 · Director	Director
t h i n k t a n k2014 · Director	Director
GGoldfish Variations2014 · Director	Director
Deafening Silence2012 · Director	Director
TTrio en Rose2012 · Director	Director
Everywhere at Once2010 · Director	Director
Buffalo Diaries2008 · Director	Director
Bullets for Breakfast1992 · Director	Director
Soft Shoe1987 · Director	Director
Rushlight (Here Today Gone Tomorrow)1984 · Director	Director
RRushlight: East/West Cycle, Part II1984 · Director	Director
Ghost Dance Wildwest Suite, Part III1980 · Director	Director
This Is Montage1978 · Director	Director
Chickenstew1978 · Director	Director
From the Ladies1977 · Director	Director
Glass Shadows1976 · Director	Director
Apple Summer1974 · Director	Director
WWatermen1968 · Director	Director
Subway1968 · Director	Director
Progress, Pork-Barrel, and Pheasant Feathers1966 · Director	Director
Amarillo; Westcliffe Stampede Parts I & IIDirector	Director