Sam Taylor-Johnson Movies

  • 1999
    Third Party

    Third Party

    Third Party

    01999HD

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

    Third Party
  • 2008
    Three Minute Round

    Three Minute Round

    Three Minute Round

    02008HD

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

    Three Minute Round
  • 1997
    Atlantic

    Atlantic

    Atlantic

    01997HD

    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
  • 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
  • 2003
    Strings

    Strings

    Strings

    02003HD

    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
  • 2001
    Still Life

    Still Life

    Still Life

    02001HD

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

    Still Life
  • 1998
    Method in Madness

    Method in Madness

    Method in Madness

    01998HD

    1998 Sam Taylor-Wood video art piece featuring a dude goin' nuts

    Method in Madness
  • 2001
    Breach (Girl & Eunuch)

    Breach (Girl & Eunuch)

    Breach (Girl & Eunuch)

    02001HD

    Reminiscent of Warhol, Breach depicts a girl in ever-heightening grief, but with the sound of her tears removed. The person inflicting her agony is...

    Breach (Girl & Eunuch)
  • 1995
    Brontosaurus

    Brontosaurus

    Brontosaurus

    01995HD

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

    Brontosaurus
  • 2007
    That White Rush

    That White Rush

    That White Rush

    02007HD

    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
  • 1994
    Killing Time

    Killing Time

    Killing Time

    01994HD

    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
  • 1996
    Knackered

    Knackered

    Knackered

    01996HD

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

    Knackered
  • 2001
    Mute

    Mute

    Mute

    02001HD

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

    Mute
  • 2008
    Sigh

    Sigh

    Sigh

    02008HD

    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
  • 2002
    Prelude in Air

    Prelude in Air

    Prelude in Air

    02002HD

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

    Prelude in Air
  • 2002
    A Little Death

    A Little Death

    A Little Death

    62002HD

    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
  • 1970
    Middlesex

    Middlesex

    Middlesex

    01970HD

    Middlesex
  • 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
    Ascension

    Ascension

    Ascension

    02003HD

    2003 Sam Taylor-Wood video art work featuring a tap dancer

    Ascension
  • 1999
    Hysteria

    Hysteria

    Hysteria

    01999HD

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

    Hysteria