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Holly Fisher

Overview

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.

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2021 b e d e v i l e d Directing Director N/A
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2021 Out of the Blue Directing Director N/A
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2021 Softshoe for Bartok Directing Director N/A
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2017 Split Infinities: Self-Portrait Reconsidered Directing Director N/A
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2016 Ruffled Feathers Directing Director N/A
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2015 A Question of Sunlight Directing Director N/A
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2015 Ghost Dance for a New Century Directing Director N/A
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2014 t h i n k t a n k Directing Director N/A
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2012 Deafening Silence Directing Director N/A
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2012 Trio en Rose Directing Director N/A
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2010 Everywhere at Once Directing Director N/A
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2008 Buffalo Diaries Directing Director N/A
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1992 Bullets for Breakfast Directing Director N/A
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1987 Soft Shoe Directing Director N/A
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1984 Rushlight (Here Today Gone Tomorrow) Directing Director N/A
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1980 Ghost Dance Directing Director N/A
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1978 This Is Montage Directing Director N/A
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1978 Chickenstew Directing Director N/A
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1977 From the Ladies Directing Director N/A
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1976 Glass Shadows Directing Director N/A
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1974 Apple Summer Directing Director N/A
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1968 Watermen Directing Director N/A
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1968 Subway Directing Director N/A
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1966 Progress, Pork-Barrel, and Pheasant Feathers Directing Director N/A
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Editing
2004 A Poet on the Frontline: The Reportage of Ryszard Kapuscinski Editing Editor N/A
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1987 Who Killed Vincent Chin? Editing Editor 58
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