Bill Morrison Movies

  • 2024
    Must Have Meant

    Must Have Meant

    Must Have Meant

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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...

    Must Have Meant
  • 2000
    Ghost Trip

    Ghost Trip

    Ghost Trip

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    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 his...

    Ghost Trip
  • 2013
    Rite of Spring

    Rite of Spring

    Rite of Spring

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

    Rite of Spring
  • 2014
    Beyond Zero: 1914-1918

    Beyond Zero: 1914-1918

    Beyond Zero: 1914-1918

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    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...

    Beyond Zero: 1914-1918
  • 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
  • 2006
    Porch

    Porch

    Porch

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    A home-movie portrait of an ordinary American family, taken over many years and framed in the porch of their house.

    Porch
  • 2006
    The Highwater Trilogy

    The Highwater Trilogy

    The Highwater Trilogy

    62006HD

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

    The Highwater Trilogy
  • 1990
    Night Highway

    Night Highway

    Night Highway

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    B/W visualization of the highway during the night.

    Night Highway
  • 2007
    Fuel

    Fuel

    Fuel

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    Fuel was premiered in a multi-media performance with a film by Bill Morrison at the Kaispeicher B Warehouse at the port of Hamburg, Germany, in 2007.

    Fuel
  • 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
  • 2002
    Trinity

    Trinity

    Trinity

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    Explores Man's tendency to reduce the world into discrete intervals so that it might be more readily analyzed, even if not wholly understood.

    Trinity
  • 2012
    The Miners' Hymns

    The Miners' Hymns

    The Miners' Hymns

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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...

    The Miners' Hymns
  • 1996
    Moda

    Moda

    Moda

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

    Moda
  • 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
  • 2011
    Tributes: Pulse

    Tributes: Pulse

    Tributes: Pulse

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

    Tributes: Pulse
  • 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
  • 2011
    DawnPatrol

    DawnPatrol

    DawnPatrol

    02011HD

    An adventure from the point of view of a fly.

    DawnPatrol
  • 2016
    Niver vs Walls

    Niver vs Walls

    Niver vs Walls

    02016HD

    Previously unheard interviews with Kemp Niver and Howard Walls from 1992, the two men who helped discover and restore the earliest film collection -...

    Niver vs Walls
  • 1992
    Photo Op

    Photo Op

    Photo Op

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    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...

    Photo Op
  • 2013
    All Vows

    All Vows

    All Vows

    02013HD

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

    All Vows