Sam Taylor-Johnson Movies

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...

The graceful, ephemeral longing highlighted in this work is brought back down to earth with the title – after Van Halen's Jump. Single-screen...

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...

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

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

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,...

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....

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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