Bio

Beginning in 1990, John Morgan has made experimental tapes.  He has also written a number of reviews for Video Guide (now defunct) and the Newest Review magazine. Most of his videos rely on text for inspiration or clarification of intention. A founding member of Video Verite, Saskatoon, Morgan continues his involvement with the group in the winters.  During the summers, he tries to make a living grain farming. 

Works

Sunken Kingdom

  • 1995
  • John Morgan

The tape begins as a structuralist piece, an extended tracking shot, but collapses after a couple of minutes. In that broken space of discontinuity, language briefly emerges. The second half of the tape is more narrative. The flight of a man running across the frozen Gardiner Dam on the South Saskatchewan River, a middle aged man, laden with an unanswerable irrationality.

Sunken Kingdom