Sam Taylor-Johnson Movies

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

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...

2001 Sam Taylor-Wood video art short

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...

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...

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

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

A 10 minute film that depicts a man and a woman having an argument. This domestic drama is enacted simultaneously on two separate projected...

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...

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,...

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

In her film The Last Century (2006), what appears to be a static image of a group of people slowly reveals itself to be a real, filmed take, timed to...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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