Taking its title from an all-day/all-night convenience store, “AM/PM” examines the famous Las Vegas Strip, portraying the disorienting world of corporate hotels and casinos which utilise and redefine the spectacle in relation to architecture. “AM/PM” posits the concept of distraction itself...
Sarah Morris's Rio continues her investigation into urban psychological landscapes, this time moving her focus to Rio de Janeiro, a vast and contradictory metropolis. Tracing the culture and undercurrents of the city, Morris captures individuals and sites as varied as the office of architect Oscar...
Sarah Morris' fifth short documentary film, investigates the psychology, architecture and aesthetic of the American city. It reveals a new cityscape of Los Angeles by tracking its de-centered plan, complex architecture, and most importantly its crucial role as a center of film production. “Los...
“Beijing”, an 86-minute 35mm film, focuses on one of the most intricate and ambiguous international broadcasted events of past years – the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. “Beijing” observes the overwhelmingly perplexing and contradictory economy and authority of China, made all the more...
Alexander Kluge, the legendary German theorist and writer, student under Adorno and Horkheimer, a lawyer for the Frankfurter Schule, and paramount filmmaker of the New German Cinema is being interviewed by Sarah Morris in the recently finished but not yet utilized architecture of the controversial...
Investigates the psychology, architecture and aesthetic of the American city. When Mies van der Rohe emigrated to America in 1938, with the help of Philip Johnson, he created an image of America. Continuing to play with duality of place, Morris' Chicago is tandem with Points on a Line, shifting the...
Sarah Morris made the film “Capital” in Washington during the final days of the Clinton administration. It is a record of now unimaginable access to the centers of power. Capital continues Morris’ investigation of the way we decode and therefore begin to understand the built world around us. ...
Operating between a documentary, the biography of a city and a form of nonnarrative fiction, Miami shifts between sites of production, leisure, and work.
An idiosyncratic portrait of Dr. Georg Sieber, who served as the head psychologist of the Olympic Police. Dr. Sieber was present on the tragic morning on September 5th, 1972, when members of the terrorist group Black September attacked and took hostage the members of the visiting Israeli Olympic...
Strange Magic reveals sights of preproduction and postproduction, so in this instance tracking Frank Gehry's philosophy both through a recorded quotation, the corporation's multiple holdings, and the spectacle of the city of Paris itself.
Explores the psycho-geographical urban landscape of Abu Dhabi, its rapid growth, financial prosperity, history, spectacle, and illusion while capturing the citiy's itinerant workforce, architecture, and its potential transition away from oil as a main economic resource.
In an exploration of celebrity, privacy and surveillance, Nick Knight, supermodel Kate Moss and artist Sarah Morris collaborated on a voyeuristic fashion film.
Sakura traces the culture and undercurrents of the city of Osaka, capturing individuals and sites as varied as the famous Sakura paint and pastel factory, UNESCO-recognized Bunraku theater, late pre-eminent Japanese architect Kira Kurosawa's police prefect, the Yamazaki Suntory Distillery and the...
The Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois and the Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut. Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson. Curator and architect and the confused boundaries therein. Points on a Line complicates the idea of the copy and the original and the chronology of modernism
Midtown, shot on 16mm in New York during a single day, in which the artist hired a news crew to film a specific list of coordinates in Manhattan - an index for the artist. The film depicts both the power of the corporations and the anonymity of the street framing the flux of the city.
A portrait of the legendary Hollywood screenwriter, director, producer and actor that examines the man whose work couples the surface of modern America's economic and cultural success with dark underbelly conspiracy.
