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...

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

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

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...

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...

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 four people lip-synch to the grand, passionate sounds of the Richard Strauss opera Elektra, the contrast between the banality of modern life and...

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

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,...

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

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

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...

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....

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

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

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...

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

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

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