Bill Morrison Movies

  • 2013
    Re: Awakenings

    Re: Awakenings

    Re: Awakenings

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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...

    Re: Awakenings
  • 2021
    Buried News

    Buried News

    Buried News

    02021HD

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

    Buried News
  • 2018
    The Letter

    The Letter

    The Letter

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

    The Letter
  • 2024
    Incident

    Incident

    Incident

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    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...

    Incident
  • 2021
    The Ring

    The Ring

    The Ring

    02021HD

    A short film made during lockdown.

    The Ring
  • 2012
    Just Ancient Loops

    Just Ancient Loops

    Just Ancient Loops

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    'Just Ancient Loops' employs high resolution scans of ancient nitrate footage, as well as newly created CGI renderings of space to depict different...

    Just Ancient Loops
  • 2010
    Stargazer

    Stargazer

    Stargazer

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

    Stargazer
  • 2016
    The Unchanging Sea

    The Unchanging Sea

    The Unchanging Sea

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    The film The Unchanging Sea (2018) was inspired by the discovery of a decaying print of DW Griffith's The Unchanging Sea (1910) in the nitrate vaults...

    The Unchanging Sea
  • 2010
    Release

    Release

    Release

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

    Release
  • 1996
    Moda

    Moda

    Moda

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    Hauntingly beautiful preparation for the fashion show followed by the show itself.

    Moda
  • 2005
    Outerborough

    Outerborough

    Outerborough

    6.62005HD

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

    Outerborough
  • 2010
    Spark of Being

    Spark of Being

    Spark of Being

    6.52010HD

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

    Spark of Being
  • 1992
    Footprints

    Footprints

    Footprints

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

    Footprints
  • 2012
    Koller and Freud

    Koller and Freud

    Koller and Freud

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    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...

    Koller and Freud
  • 1996
    The Film of Her

    The Film of Her

    The Film of Her

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    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,...

    The Film of Her
  • 2020
    Curly Takes a Bath by the Sea

    Curly Takes a Bath by the Sea

    Curly Takes a Bath by the Sea

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

    Curly Takes a Bath by the Sea
  • 2016
    Little Orphant Annie

    Little Orphant Annie

    Little Orphant Annie

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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...

    Little Orphant Annie
  • 2014
    Back to the Soil

    Back to the Soil

    Back to the Soil

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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...

    Back to the Soil
  • 2017
    Dawson City: Postscript

    Dawson City: Postscript

    Dawson City: Postscript

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

    Dawson City: Postscript
  • 1996
    Cross Country

    Cross Country

    Cross Country

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    Directed by Bill Morrison

    Cross Country