Biography:

Holly Fisher was born in Boston in 1942. She received her BA in Asian Art History at Columbia University in 1964, and a MA in Cinema Studies at NYU in 1982.

Since the mid-1960s, Fisher has been active as an independent filmmaker, film editor, teacher, and printmaker. She was the editor of Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Peña’s documentary Who Killed Vincent Chin? The story about the racially motivated murder case in 1982 was nominated for an Oscar in 1989. Fisher’s experimental short and long-form essay films, explorations in memory and perception, have been screened in prestigious museums and film festivals worldwide, including Whitney Museum Biennials, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Film Forum, Japan; and two world premieres at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 1995, the New York Museum of Modern Art presented the solo retrospective The Films of Holly Fisher.

Holly Fisher was invited by Peter Lindbergh, one of the most influential contemporary photographers, to collaborate on the film Everywhere at Once (final cut 2010). The film incorporates Lindbergh's photographs with clips from Tony Richardson’s film Mademoiselle (1966), starring Jeanne Moreau. It premiered in the Avant-première program at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007.

Before turning to experimental video installations and digital print work, Fisher completed the long-form essay A Question of Sunlight (2014), which links 9/11 with the Holocaust. New York artist José Urbach remembers his early childhood in Polish concentration camps and his observations in New York in September 2001.

In fall 2014, Holly Fisher exhibited her first video installation together with two digital print series at The Augusta Savage Gallery in Amherst. Three current works were granted Remy Awards at the 2015 World/Fest in Houston. Her most recent film/video hybrid Ghostdance for a New Century premiered at Microscope Gallery Brooklyn in 2015 and was shortlisted for the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival. [See: otherwisepictures.com]

Holly Fisher lives and works in Easthampton (MA) and New York.

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