Sam Taylor-Johnson Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

Death Valley is recognised as the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere and one of the hottst places on earth. The rocks tell a story of endless...

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...

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...

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

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 figures in this piece are the fashion designer Bella Freud, daughter of Lucian and granddaughter of Sigmund, and her husband, the writer James...

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

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

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

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