Simon Fisher-Turner

A Fidai Film (2024)

In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time, it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images. T ...

Instability of the Signal (2024)

Film of Simon Fisher Turner's new album, Instability of The Signal, directed by Japanese filmmaker Isao Yamada. ...

The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze (2024)

A collection of thoughts and journeys. A dialogue between different forms of knowledge. A film about dancing, working, and life itself. The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze explores current ideas about learning in a global context. ...

Cam's Mementos (2023)

To better understand what he has, filmmaker Cam Archer revisits former subjects, rephotographs them, and seeks new inspiration. ...

Deep in the Eye and the Belly (2023)

In the present day, a story is unearthed of a whale body that became a world of dinner parties, clandestine sex and mayoral speeches. In a possible future, a group of those-who-were-left-behind (or, those-who-chose-to-stay) have made a home inside the body ...

Sound for the Future (2022)

An affectionate and hilarious reconstruction of the story of The Hippies, Britain's youngest punk band, formed by artist Matt Hulse and his siblings in 1979. ...

The Picture from Darkness (2016)

Takashi Makino's collaboration with Derek Jarman regular Simon Fisher Turner. Taking its starting point as Jarman's blindness after the completion of BLUE. ...

The Raft of the Medusa (2015)

After months of continuous rain, all coastal areas of the UK are flooded. Bella and Jude are marooned on their flooded farm, cut off from any contact with the world outside. ...

The Invisible Frame (2009)

In 1988, Cynthia Beatt and the young Tilda Swinton embarked on a filmic journey along the Berlin Wall into little-known territory. The film is now an unusual document. 21 years later, in June 2009, Beatt & Swinton re-traced the line of the Wall that once i ...

Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (2008)

A few years after his death, the widow of Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) asks Jon Ronson to look through the contents of about 1,000 boxes of meticulously sorted materials Kubrick left. Ronson finds that most contain materials reflecting work Kubrick did afte ...

Derek (2008)

Derek, in chronological order, records the work and life that stands at the foot of Derek Jarman's humour and spirit of being an artist. The filmmaker and actress, Isaac Julien and Tilda Swinton respectively, have produced and narrated a film on his life w ...

Delicate eyelashes (2007)

William Eggleston in the Real World (2005)

Documentary about William Eggleston, a famous modern American photographer. ...

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003)

Will Graham is a former London crime boss who has left his former life to live as a recluse in the forest. Haunted by the blood of those he has murdered, Will wishes never to return. But when his brother commits suicide following a sexual assault at the ha ...

My Kingdom (2001)

A powerful dynasty, headed by a charismatic, manipulative father, falls when he decides to hand over his criminal empire to his three corrupt and power-hungry daughters. Kath runs a brothel down by the docks, Tracy owns a soccer team and Jo, a former junki ...

The Girl Who Picks Flowers and the Girl Who Kills Insects (2000)

Two girls, one from Germany, the other from Japan meet and become friends in London, but soon discover things aren't what they seem. ...

Gangster No. 1 (2000)

An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed. ...

Claire Dolan (1998)

A high-priced call girl, shocked by her mother's death, decides to get out of the business and have a baby. ...

The Eternal (1998)

An alcoholic American couple travel to Ireland with their son so he can meet his grandmother but they walk in on their crazed uncle who is in the midst of reviving a centuries-old Druid witch. ...

Croupier (1998)

Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer who to make ends meet, takes a job as a croupier. Jack remains an observer, knowing that everything in life is a gamble and that gamblers are born to lose. Inevitably, he gets sucked into the world of the casino which tak ...

Crocodile Snap (1997)

A woman's bid to escape her violent husband is seen through the eyes of her younger daughter. Sadie understands Mum better after an accident on Brighton beach shows her that all actions have consequences and that fear of the unknown can be greater than fea ...

The Rocking Horse Winner (1997)

A gambler comes to live with his sister and discovers his young nephew can predict the winner of horse races by riding on his rocking horse. ...

All Men Are Mortal (1995)

Melodrama about a man cursed with immortality, who tries to declare his undying love for a depressed actress. ...

Nadja (1995)

In a contemporary New York City, members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their father's death. Meanwhile, they are being hunted by Dr. Van Helsing and his hapless nephew. As in all good vamp ...

Hermaphrodite Bikini (1995)

Director Clio Barnard, using Harry and Paintbox techniques, intercut with a Hi-8 video diary, presents a non-narrative collage addressing sexual difference and artifice, both imagined and real. ...

Loaded (1994)

A group of young friends convene in the countryside to shoot a horror movie. But an experiment with LSD sees normal boundaries between them collapsing, and tragedy subsequently striking. ...

Blue (1993)

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings ...

Elenya (1992)

In Wales during World War Two, a German airman crash-lands in a wood and is found by 12-year-old Elenya. She decides to keep him a secret. ...

I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur (1992)

A young geologist is traveling by train to visit his sister in the countryside after having received a mysterious letter from her. ...

Un dimanche sans ailes (1992)

Edward II (1991)

England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of nobility. ...

The Garden (1990)

A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by the po ...

Melancholia (1989)

Art critic Keller, a German ex-pat living in London, is confronted by his radical 1960s past when he's asked to assassinate a Chilean murderer who is on a visit to London. ...

Cycling the Frame (1988)

In 1988, Tilda Swinton toured round the Berlin Wall on a bicycle - starting and ending at the Brandenburg Gate - accompanied by filmmaker Cynthia Beatt. As Swinton travels through fields and historic neighborhoods, past lakes and massive concrete apartment ...

The Last of England (1987)

The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher. ...

Caravaggio (1986)

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld. ...

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory (2022)

Why are we still able, today, to view images that were captured over 125 years ago? As we enter the digital age, audiovisual heritage seems to be a sure and obvious fact. However, much of cinema and our filmed history has been lost forever. Archivists, tec ...

The Gospel According to St Derek (2014)

Using interviews with close family, friends and collaborators, The Gospel According to St. Derek bears witness to Derek Jarman's unique approach to low-budget film-making (his near-alchemical ability to turn the base components of film-making in to artisti ...

Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 2: The Firstborn is Dead) (2009)

A short film to accompany the reissue of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album The Firstborn is Dead (originally released in 1985). The result is a determinedly human portrait of the unique body of work produced by the band over the last 25 years, told through t ...

The Girl Who Picks Flowers and the Girl Who Kills Insects (2000)

Two girls, one from Germany, the other from Japan meet and become friends in London, but soon discover things aren't what they seem. ...

The End of the Affair (1999)

On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his own jealous ...

The Party: Nature Morte (1991)

The eponymous party is hosted by Queenie and Burrs, long-term lovers who are rapidly growing apart. ...

Caravaggio (1986)

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld. ...

The Big Sleep (1978)

Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster. ...

Who Killed Lamb? (1974)

A popular member of the Oxford community is killed and nobody figure out why. A police inspector is called in from Scotland Yard and discovers there may be more to the victim than anyone knows. ...

The Sea Children (1973)

Skindivers on holiday in Malta discover strange world beneath the sea. ...