Movies: Bill Morrison
- 2017
Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017)
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The true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s to 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until being discovered buried in a sub-arctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon Territory, in Dawson City, located about 350 miles south of...
- 2021
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle (2021)
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Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective (Деревенский детектив), a 1969 Soviet film—, caught in the nets of an Icelandic trawler, is the first step ...
- 2017
Cinema of Decay: The Films of Bill Morrison (2017)
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This documentary focuses on the artistry of director Bill Morrison, who leverages decaying film stock from years past to tell new stories that are relevant to today's audiences. The decaying film lends brilliant visuals which add to Morrison's concep...
- 2012
The Great Flood (2012)
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The Mississippi River Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in American history. In the spring of 1927, the river broke out of its banks in 145 places and inundated 27,000 square miles to a depth of up to 30 feet. Part of it enduring leg...
- 2002
Decasia: The State of Decay (2002)
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A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score....
- 2003
The Mesmerist (2003)
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Made by re-editing a deteriorated nitrate print of The Bells (1926), starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff, this work shows the fragility of the film image while foreshadowing the Holocaust....
- 2015
Pop Meets the Void (2015)
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Shapeshifting between stardom and anonymity, an unhinged musician navigates a hyperreal combination of live action and animation daydreams in a struggle to release his first album....
- 2013
Rite of Spring (2013)
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Black-and-white film projections by Bill Morrison, using archival footage of frigid Arctic scenes....
- 2020
Silents, Please! A Love Letter to the Silent Era (2020)
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A TCM original production on why silent movies matter, featuring new interviews with Honorary Academy Award winner Kevin Brownlow, filmmaker Bill Morrison, TCM Silent Sunday Nights host Jacqueline Stewart, and film collector/expert Shane Fleming. The...
- 2010
The Miners' Hymns (2010)
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The ill-fated coal mining communities in North East England are the subject of this inspired documentary by multi-media artist Bill Morrison. Their story is told entirely without words, yet the film is far from silent: it features a remarkable origin...
- 1992
Footprints (1992)
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Early Bill Morrison film from 1992, black & white, 16mm....
- 2013
Re: Awakenings (2013)
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Original Super 8 footage shot by Dr. Oliver Sacks of his patients at Beth Abraham Hospital, Bronx, NY, who were administered the drug L-Dopa in the summer of 1969 and “awakened” after decades of inactivity is featured in this cine-poem that combines ...
- 2021
let me come in (2021)
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Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Pawns of Passion (1928)....
- 2014
Back to the Soil (2014)
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In 1924, Jewish tradesmen in the newly-formed Soviet Union relocated to the Ukraine, Belarus and Crimea to form farming colonies. The film is of a tour to survey the so-called “Agro-Joint colonies” by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee,...
- 2004
Light Is Calling (2004)
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A scene from The Bells (1926) is optically reprinted and edited to Michael Gordon's 7 minute composition. A meditation on the fleeting nature of life and love, as seen through the roiling emulsion of a film....
- 2005
Mutual Appreciation (2005)
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Alan is a musician who leaves a busted-up band for New York, and a new musical voyage. He tries to stay focused and fends off all manner of distractions, including the attraction to his good friend's girlfriend....
- 1999
City Walk (1999)
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An early Bill Morrison short, in this work he traverses an urban landscape utilizing high contrast black and white footage. The bustling nature of the setting is complimented by the energetic music by Michael Gordon....
- 2024
The Vanguard Tapes (2024)
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A series of conversations and monologues captured in the kitchen of the famous Vanguard jazz club in New York’s Greenwich Village in 1994- 95 by the director, who was working at the club at the time as a dishwasher....
- 2016
Little Orphant Annie (2016)
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Little Orphant Annie is a re-edit of a silent film of the same title from 1918, directed by Colin Campbell. Two reels from an original nitrate print were scanned and re-edited to make the new film, which follows the structure of the poem written by J...
- 2024
Must Have Meant (2024)
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Corabelle, an orange tabby, wanders through a snowy East Village community garden, pondering the possibility of connection. With a soundtrack by Elysian Field....