Seth Morgan is the first and only gesture based filmmaker. He believes the camera should not be a passive mediator, but an interactive facilitator of a new relationship between the subject and the artist. For far too long has film been restricted with a plastic layer of spandex: Seth Morgan marries his own improvised movement with the passive sensor of the camera to create a work that breaks through the wall of modern malaise.
Seth Morgan was born in the foothills of Appalachia. After working in the coal mines as a bucket carrier, Seth fled the protective pines of his holler and made his way as a young 8 year old to the big city. There in New York, he got a job cleaning the floor of the south street fish market. Always a relentless creative genius, in his spare time he created the first avant garde “Fish Head Theatre,” playing for tips from the tourists. Eventually, he created his own film school and taught himself the art of gesture based filmmaking.
Seth Morgan holds self-appointed honorary degrees from Princeton, Yale and his own school Seth Moran’s New York Academy of Gesture Based Filmmaking. Seth Morgan does not believe in convention, he sloughs off conformity at every turn, shattering paradigms and plumbing the depths of artistic expression, re-emerging victorious and clutching the crown jewel of creative integrity—original vision. Do not try to copy him—he cannot be imitated.
