Sam Taylor-Johnson Movies

  • 2002
    A Little Death

    A Little Death

    A Little Death

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    Taylor-Johnson updates traditional still life imagery. What seems at first to be a quiet arrangement of a dead hare and peach on a table starts to...

    A Little Death
  • 1997
    Atlantic

    Atlantic

    Atlantic

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    In Sam Taylor-Johnson's words, 'I wanted (Atlantic) to feel like you could be coming in, as you say, at any point, not necessarily at the beginning,...

    Atlantic
  • 2007
    The Servant

    The Servant

    The Servant

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    The figures in this piece are the fashion designer Bella Freud, daughter of Lucian and granddaughter of Sigmund, and her husband, the writer James...

    The Servant
  • 2007
    That White Rush

    That White Rush

    That White Rush

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    Sam Taylor-Wood says she can't believe the silly questions that people keep asking about her latest work, presented in the Ukrainian pavilion. That...

    That White Rush
  • 1999
    Third Party

    Third Party

    Third Party

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    As Harold Pinter famously said, Taylor-Johnson is 'the weasel under the cocktail cabinet' at this particular party. The erotic undercurrents between...

    Third Party
  • 2004
    David

    David

    David

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    Simply lit from one light source (the lamp in the Madrid hotel room where it was shot) and shot in a single long take after Beckham finished...

    David
  • 1970
    Middlesex

    Middlesex

    Middlesex

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    Middlesex
  • 2001
    Still Life

    Still Life

    Still Life

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    2001 Sam Taylor video art piece featuring rotting fruit in time lapse

    Still Life
  • 1998
    Noli Me Tangere

    Noli Me Tangere

    Noli Me Tangere

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    The title of this piece is the well-known warning of Jesus to Mary Magdalene after his resurrection. It translates to Touch me not. This biblical...

    Noli Me Tangere
  • 2002
    Prelude in Air

    Prelude in Air

    Prelude in Air

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    2002 Sam Taylor-Wood short video art piece featuring a man playing an imaginary string instrument.

    Prelude in Air
  • 1994
    Pent-Up

    Pent-Up

    Pent-Up

    01994HD

    The interior monologues of five characters are made audible, giving way to a host of efforts on the part of the viewer to create connections or...

    Pent-Up
  • 2003
    Strings

    Strings

    Strings

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    A string quartet, dressed in black tie, seated in an arc that curves away from the viewer, play part of Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No. 2 in F major...

    Strings
  • 2008
    Three Minute Round

    Three Minute Round

    Three Minute Round

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    Three Minute Round depicts the Klitschko brothers, Vitali and Wladimir, in the moments after defeating their rivals in separate championship boxing...

    Three Minute Round
  • 1996
    Knackered

    Knackered

    Knackered

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    1996 Sam Taylor-Wood video art piece focusing on a naked singer

    Knackered
  • 2001
    Mute

    Mute

    Mute

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    2001 Sam Taylor-Wood video art work featuring a man praying in silence

    Mute
  • 1994
    Killing Time

    Killing Time

    Killing Time

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    As four people lip-synch to the grand, passionate sounds of the Richard Strauss opera Elektra, the contrast between the banality of modern life and...

    Killing Time
  • 1995
    Brontosaurus

    Brontosaurus

    Brontosaurus

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    Informed by cinematic and documentary traditions, Taylor-Johnson has been working with photography, film and video in London since the early 1990s....

    Brontosaurus
  • 1997
    Sustaining the Crisis

    Sustaining the Crisis

    Sustaining the Crisis

    01997HD

    The Swedish actress Amanda Ooms, who appeared in several of Taylor-Johnson's early works, is here juxtaposed with a man who is filmed separately....

    Sustaining the Crisis
  • 1999
    Hysteria

    Hysteria

    Hysteria

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    1999 Sam Taylor-Wood video art piece featuring a dancer in agony

    Hysteria
  • 2008
    Sigh

    Sigh

    Sigh

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    Sigh was made in collaboration with the BBC Concert Orchestra and features a score made especially for it by Academy-Award winning composer Anne...

    Sigh