Bill Morrison

09 de jun. de 2017

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective (Дер...

27 de abr. de 2021

The ill-fated coal mining communities in North East England are the subject of this inspired documentary by multi-media artist Bill Morrison. Their...

08 de fev. de 2012

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

14 de out. de 2014

A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.

24 de jan. de 2002

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 li...

16 de jan. de 2004

Based on the story of Howard Walls, A clerk at the Library of Congress who saved a collection of early paper reel films from the incinerator, dire...

04 de dez. de 1996

03 de nov. de 2012

Drawing from a passage from the Rosh Hashana Service, “Who shall live, who shall die… who by water, who by fire,” this short film deals with that w...

01 de jan. de 2007

Chicago, 2018. A man is killed by police on the street. Through a composite montage of images from surveillance and security footage as well as pol...

25 de abr. de 2023

Divided into three sections, Bill Morrison's The Highwater Trilogy examines our relationship to the threat of natural disaster by combining archiva...

31 de mai. de 2006

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 ban...

17 de nov. de 2012

Made by re-editing a deteriorated nitrate print of The Bells (1926), starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff, this work shows the fragility of ...

07 de nov. de 2003

In 1899, a photographer at American Mutoscope & Biograph mounted his camera on the front of a trolley traveling over the Brooklyn Bridge. The three...

19 de abr. de 2005

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...

01 de abr. de 2013

Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Pawns of Passion (1928).

10 de abr. de 2021

Singer-songwriter Slink Moss plays the mysterious driver of a Cadillac hearse who journeys across America to pick up and drop off a hitchhiker to h...

13 de jun. de 2000

A response in music and film to the conflict that launched a century of war, and a celebration of the power of art to keep us sane and offer us com...

27 de nov. de 2014

On March 17, 1930, a crowd assembled outside Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary in hopes of witnessing Al Capone's release from prison. Morr...

26 de out. de 2010

01 de jan. de 2006

An early Bill Morrison short, in this work he traverses an urban landscape utilizing high contrast black and white footage. The bustling nature of ...

01 de jan. de 1999

A city symphony inspired by New York

01 de jan. de 2004

Spark of Being, a close adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel Frankenstein, explores the thematic interchangeability of three of the novel’s ch...

19 de nov. de 2010

The 1st Volume of Characters in Motion introduces a new wealth of cutting edge character visuals to the established world of animation. The DVD co...

01 de out. de 2005

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 ...

01 de jan. de 2014

Projeto de Filme Musical

13 de mai. de 2016

An English translation of ‘Kol Nidre’, the incantation that begins the Yom Kippur service and which pre-emptively nullifies any future vows made un...

01 de jan. de 2013

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 th...

01 de jun. de 2024

B/W visualization of the highway during the night.

01 de jan. de 1990

Corabelle, an orange tabby, wanders through a snowy East Village community garden, pondering the possibility of connection. With a soundtrack by El...

01 de jun. de 2024

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

07 de abr. de 2020

Early Bill Morrison film from 1992, black & white, 16mm.

01 de jan. de 1992

Using the discarded, deteriorating remnants from seven silent film titles, filmmaker Bill Morrison braids a story of intertwining love triangles th...

26 de abr. de 2018

A short film made during lockdown.

08 de abr. de 2021

A short film made during lockdown.

08 de abr. de 2021

Frequent Kronos collaborator Bill Morrison uses rare, early-20th century news footage to uncover ways that narratives about race have been used in ...

17 de jun. de 2021

Drawing from Portugal’s rich heritage of shipping, trade, and exploration, “The Dockworker's Dream” takes the viewer on a journey downriver, into p...

01 de abr. de 2016

The wind swirls up dust in a desert landscape. The picture is followed by images of clouds racing over the skyline of a city, of reflections on an ...

04 de abr. de 1995

Originally produced for the opera "The Death Train of Baron Von Frankenstein". The opera was conceived and written by John Moran, directed for the ...

01 de jan. de 1993

Black-and-white film projections by Bill Morrison, using archival footage of frigid Arctic scenes.

01 de jul. de 2013

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

30 de dez. de 2021

My cat Curly recorded this video on 4/7/20. It's a get well soon card to the world. (And remember to wash your paws!)

18 de ago. de 2020

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

01 de jun. de 2020

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 prin...

01 de abr. de 2016

10 de nov. de 2018

Following on from Bill Morrison's feature Dawson City: Frozen Time, a short film, Dawson City: Postscript (10 min, 2017) details the journey this c...

25 de out. de 2017

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, w...

13 de set. de 2012

'Tributes-Pulse' is a collaboration between American filmmaker Bill Morrison and Danish composer and percussionist Simon Christensen. Christensen o...

01 de jun. de 2011

A self-explanatory film by Bill Morrison, with music by Michael Gordon, performed by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City.

01 de jul. de 2008

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

01 de jan. de 2010

Originally planned as part of Michael Kanieckis play, «Howard Hughes: The World Is Round», the film follows the internal monologue of billionaire H...

01 de mar. de 1994

Directed by Bill Morrison

01 de jan. de 1996