FILMOGRAPHY HOLLY FISHER (Download as RTF-File)
2001 KALAMA SUTTA: Seeing is Believing Experimental documentary in which a trip to Burma is transformed into a meditation on human rights and media. Grants from The New York State Council on the Arts (2),Wellspring Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Burma Donors‘ Secretariat, Norwegian Burma Council, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, United Methodist Office of the UN, & private donations. Completion January 2001.
1999 WHEN SPIDERS UNITE ... (30 minutes) Screened at the Hague Appeal for Peace „Images of War Visions of Peace“ Documentary Film Festival. Made for Free Burma Coalition for non-commercial distribution. Also Work Sample for KALAMA SUTTA: Seeing is Believing (formerly: Burma Land/Scapes).
1992 BULLETS FOR BREAKFAST (77 minutes) Festivals: Berlin International Film Festival, Germany; Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI, „Best Experimental Film Award“; Sinking Creek Film Celebration, TN, prize winner ; Image Forum Festival, Tokyo, Japan; Houston International Film Festival, TX; Los Angeles International Film Festival (AFI), CA; Galway Film Fleadgh, Ireland; Flaherty International Film Seminar, NY; European Media Art Festival, Osnabruch, Germany; Haifa International Film Festival, Israel; Virginia Festival of American Film, VA.
One-Person Shows: Deutches Film Museum. Frankfurt, Germany; Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL; Kennedy Center, DC; Gene Autry Western Museum (sponsored by LA Filmforum), Los Angeles, CA; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA; Museum of Modern Art, 1995, and „Cineprobe“, 1993; The Whitney Museum 1993 „Biennial,“ NYC, NY. Funding; The New York State Council on the Arts, The Jerome Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and The Brooklyn Arts and Culture Association. Collections: Museum of Modern Art, Donnell Film Library, Arizona State University.
1987 SOFT SHOE (21 minutes). Festivals: Ann Arbor (award); Sinking Creek Film Celebration (award); Athens International Film Festival (Honorable Mention); Oberhausen Film Festival ; Parabola Selection. Recent screening: Museum of Modern Art, 1995. Collections: The Donnell Film Library, The Museum of Modern Art.
1984 RUSHLIGHT (40 minutes): Festivals/Screenings: Museum of Modern Art, 1995; Whitney Museum 1985 „Biennial:“ “Cinema Experimental American, 1904-84,“ The Beaubourg Museum Paris, France, 1985; Black Maria Film Festival, Grand Prize, 1985. Funding: The American Film Institute. Collections: Donnell Film Library, The Museum of Modern Art.
1980 THE WILDWEST SUITE (55 minutes, in four parts for two projectors). Part I: AMARILLO (7 minutes); Part II: WESTCLIFFE STAMPEDE (7 minutes); Part III: GHOST DANCE (30 minutes); Part IV: BLUE MOVIE (16 minutes). Screenings include: Museum of Modern Art, 1995; Athens International Film Festival, 1993; 12-stop tour, Germany, 1982: Millennium Film Workshop, 1981.
1978 THIS IS MONTAGE (7 minutes) Most recent screening, „The Films of Holly Fisher“, MOMA, 1995 CHICKENSTEW (10 minutes) Most recent screening, MOMA, 1995
FROM THE LADIES (25 minutes) - each of these screened at: „The Films of Holly Fisher“, The Museum of Modern Art, 1995; Deutches Film Museum, Frankfurt, Germany, 1992; others. Collections: Donnell Film Library, The Museum of Modern Art.
1976 GLASS SHADOWS (25 minutes) Recent Screening: The Museum of Modern Art, 1995. Collections: Donnell Film Library, The Museum of Modern Art.
1974 APPLE SUMMER (25 minutes). One-person show, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 1975; Flaherty Film Seminar, 1974
1972 OFFSEASON (10 minutes). One-person show, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1970 SUBWAY (5 minutes). With Ben Melnick. Most recent screening, „The Films of Holly Fisher“, MOMA, 1995
PSSSHT(5 minutes, color, sound.) Dramatic short. Written and Edited by Holly Fisher. Ann Arbor Film Festival.
1966-71Co-produced and directed documentaries with partner Romas Slezas under Boston-based company Fisher-Slezas Films inc. Credits include (selected): feature documentary WATERMAN (63 minutes), winner of Bronze medal at the Atlanta Film Festival; and PROGRESS. PORK-BARREL, and PHEASANT FEATHERS (B&W, 28 minutes), recipient of a Blue Ribbon at the Educational Film Library Association Film Festival, 1966
EDITING CREDITS (selected)
1996 POET ON THE FRONT LINE: One-hour documentary about the life and work of Polish war-correspondent and author Ryszard Kapuschinski . Directed by Gabrielle Pheiffer, produced by New York Center for Visual History, funded by NEH.
1995 Inspirational Women: for AIN'T NUTHIN' BUT A SHE THING (2-hour special) produced by Good Karma for MTV: five 3-minute portraits of Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace-Prize recipient of Burma; Betty Williams, Nobel Peace-prize winner from No. Ireland; and others.
1994 LITANY FOR SURVIVAL: 90 minute documentary on the life and work of black lesbian poet Audre Lorde, directed by Ada Griffin and Michelle Parker for Third World Newsreel. Premiered at Sundance 1995; selected for POV, 1996. Best-Biography Award, Golden Gate Film Festival, 1995. Funded by ITVS and others.
1992 SEQUESTRO: 92 minute documentary, Directed by Camila Motta, Cinematography by Barry Ellsworth. Concerns a kidnapping case in Colombia, South America. Spanish with English inter-titles and sub-titles. NYC Premier, The Film Forum, 1994. Selected for The London Film Festival, The Flaherty Film Festival, others.
1990 PORTRAIT OF BRITAIN; THE EMPIRE: 54 minute&Mac226;magazine format‘ documentary produced and directed by Merle Worth for Turner Broadcasting Service.
1988 WHO KILLED VINCENT CHIN?: 75 minute documentary, directed by Christine Choy and Rene Tajima. World Premiere, New Director's Series, Museum of Modern Art, 1988. Nominated for Academy Award, 1989. First Prize, Global Village Festival.
1985 MADE IN CHINA, 30 minute documentary, directed by Lisa Hsia, in Chinese and English, with English sub-titles. Screened at Flaherty, Oberhausen, and others.
1979-80 3-2-1 CONTACT! Editor on Pilot and 1st Season, children's science magazine show, produced by The Children's Television Network. "KISS CONCERT", Directed by Charlotte Zwerin, nominated for Daytime Emmy.
1972-78 Free-lance Film Editor, primarily at WGBH-TV, Boston, Mass. Worked primarily on series ZOOM and REBOP!
1966-71 President and co-filmmaker, Fisher-Slezas Films Inc., cinema-verite‘ production team, Boston, Mass. Credits include award-winning feature documentary WATERMEN; plus PROGRESS, PORK-BARREL, AND PHEASANT FEATHERS, recipient of a Blue Ribbon at the EFLA Film Festival; several public-relations documentaries for Volkswagen of America.
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