Michael D. Murphy

Películas

Una loca, loca fiesta
Director of Photography
Es Verano y las clases de la Universidad han finalizado. Para la hermosa e ingenua Sara, las vacaciones van a ser tranquilas y relajantes en la preciosa casa de la playa en mibu. sara ha invitado a dos de sus amigas, Ginger y Ducky para que compartan con ella sus vacaciones, sin pensar que estas planean un relax muy "sui generis" y por todo lo alto.
Elephant Parts
Director of Photography
Winner of the first video Grammy Award, Michael Nesmith (The Monkees) wrote and starred in Elephant Parts, a collection of comedy and music videos using money he inherited from his mother, the inventor of Liquid Paper. Elephant Parts is one hour long and features five full length music videos, including the popular songs "Rio", and "Cruisin'", which featured wrestler Steve Strong and Monterey-based comic "Chicago" Steve Barkley. An off-beat collection that is very entertaining to view while in an altered state.
Coach
Director of Photography
An Olympic Gold medalist is hired to coach the boys basketball team. But when Coach Randy Rawlings arrives, the school's sexist principal discovers he hired a woman. Blocked from firing her due to discrimination laws, he tries to make sure the team loses, so he can fire her for poor performance
Mirrors
Director of Photography
A newlywed couple checks into an old hotel in New Orleans where the wife begins having dreams in which she encounters a sinister group of people who seem to want her for some nefarious purpose. When people around her start dying, she realizes she is not dreaming.
Dogs
Director
A film experience to invite careful looking and listening. A group of dogs in the countryside, and at home. The camera observes in a sensitive and detailed way: as the dogs explore a stream and drink, we see how their tongues work to toss beads of water upwards. The rhythms and sounds, the ways of relating and communicating that are special to dogs.
Cracked Actor
Director of Photography
The documentary depicts Bowie on tour in Los Angeles, using a mixture of vérité sequences filmed in limousines and hotels, and concert footage. Most of the concert footage was taken from a show at the Los Angeles Universal Amphitheatre on 2 September 1974 (Also featured are excerpts from D.A. Pennebaker's concert film shot at London's Hammersmith Odeon on 3 July 1973). Cracked Actor is notable for being a source for footage of Bowie's ambitious Diamond Dogs tour, and also for showing Bowie's fragile mental state during this period.
Sheep, Sheep, Sheep
Director
Moods, rhythms, and images of sheep. Natural sounds without commentary. The slowly grazing sheep shuffle, gather, and begin flowing through the valley, a soft, blurry river of wool. They stop, clump together, collect their feet, and lie down quietly to chew their cuds. Sleep. Awake! Pressing together along the road; moving to the highlands, hooves thundering; voices yowling. Fresh grass. Ewes call their lambs. Bouncing over nothing, bleating, the lambs search out their mothers. Milk. Heads banging, the lambs play. pushing, jostling, and scurrying together into the darkness.
The Cow
Director
A beauty-filled look at cows on a peaceful day in the pasture. Natural sounds, without narration. A little girl lolls in the meadow, watching cows sniff the grass, jaws grinding, tails swishing. Colors and shapes of bodies, textures of noses and hides. A new-born calf, licked clean by its mother, tries to stand on collapsible legs and searches out its first meal. “The essence of cowness is fixed forever in the mind and heart of the viewer” (Los Angeles Times).
Skaterdater
Director of Photography
The film tells a story with no dialogue. The group of boy skaters are suddenly at a point when one of the boys sees a young girl, and becomes interested in her. This causes a rift with the other boys, who challenges him to a skating duel that goes down a hilly street. The young boy loses. However, he gets the girl, and shortly, a few other girls are seen and become interested in the boys, too. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
The Lollipop Cover
Director of Photography
After learning of his sister's suicide, Nick, a small-time boxer, decides to pay a visit to his sister's junkie lover in Los Angeles, collect some money and pursue an early retirement in Mexico. Along the way, he meets a 9-year-old girl who's been abandoned by her father and together they hitchhike south.
IBM at the Fair
Cinematography
This film reveals design proposals for the IBM pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. It incorporates photography and animation to present the concepts, architecture, and overall look of the pavilion and to convey an impression of the exhibition's spirit and content.