Movies: Bill Morrison

This found-footage piece is based on an early study of the effects of cocaine by the filmmaker’s great-grandfather Carl Koller and Sigmund Freud, when the two were in medical school together in Vienna....

A collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The Cube....

'Tributes-Pulse' is a collaboration between American filmmaker Bill Morrison and Danish composer and percussionist Simon Christensen. Christensen originally conceived of the project as a tribute to four American composers, Charles Ives (1874-1954), C...

A short film made during lockdown....

B/W visualization of the highway during the night....

A short film by Bill Morrison...

An experimental film by Bill Morrison....

Video by Bill Morrison created for the Ridge Theater production of "Persephone", with music by Ben Neill and Mimi Goese. The staged production was part of the BAM Next Wave Festival 2010....

A woman attends a party where she is observed by and finally meets a mysterious guest....

Frequent Kronos collaborator Bill Morrison uses rare, early-20th century news footage to uncover ways that narratives about race have been used in the U.S. to divide people and maintain power....

Directed by Bill Morrison...

A film symphony inspired by Los Angeles....

A collection of films that have been found, or remain, on the Ocean's floor....

This is an excerpt from the 60-minute film commissioned for Conrad Cummings's opera of the same title, which was produced by Ridge Theater and staged at La Mama, NYC, in June, 1992....

A short film made during lockdown....

An examination of weaving and the loom as the predecessor to modern-day computing. Using punched cards, weaving programs were designed for looms in 18th century, and by the dawn of the 19th century, the process was automated. This was the percursor o...

A film by Bill Morrison....

Drawing from Portugal’s rich heritage of shipping, trade, and exploration, “The Dockworker's Dream” takes the viewer on a journey downriver, into port, into factories, towns, and families, and out into the great unknown. Different ports of call are f...

a serene and endearing cat-cam video, made during lockdown and scored by Bill Frisell....

An English translation of ‘Kol Nidre’, the incantation that begins the Yom Kippur service and which pre-emptively nullifies any future vows made unintentionally. The film uses ancient archival films to depict an unknowable future, reflected through a...