Bill Morrison Filmes
- 2005

Outerborough
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In 1899, a photographer at American Mutoscope & Biograph mounted his camera on the front of a trolley traveling over the Brooklyn Bridge. The three...
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- 2017

Cinema of Decay: The Films of Bill Morrison
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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...
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- 2014

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...
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- 2006

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.
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- 2011

DawnPatrol
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An adventure from the point of view of a fly.
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- 2020

Curly’s Thanksgiving
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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!)
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- 1992

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...
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- 1996

Moda
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Hauntingly beautiful preparation for the fashion show followed by the show itself.
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- 2021

Buried News
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Frequent Kronos collaborator Bill Morrison uses rare, early-20th century news footage to uncover ways that narratives about race have been used in...
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- 2020

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.
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- 2013

Bill Morrison: The Film Archaeologist
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Things fall apart, but they are also reassembled and given new life, in an enlightened form. Meet the New York based artist and filmmaker Bill...
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- 2024

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...
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- 2003

East River
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A brief glimpse of Manhattan's skin. Music by Michael Gordon.
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- 2011

Tributes: Pulse
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'Tributes-Pulse' is a collaboration between American filmmaker Bill Morrison and Danish composer and percussionist Simon Christensen. Christensen...
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- 2025

Ghost of the Past
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Using newly discovered fragments of a French film, Morrison reconstructs the film.
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- 2007

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.
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- 2012

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...
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- 2007

Peoples House
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Walter Francis and Jerry Peoples, two characters from "Mutual Appreciation", share a visit at the Peoples' home in the countryside.
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- 2007

Who by Water
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Drawing from a passage from the Rosh Hashana Service, “Who shall live, who shall die… who by water, who by fire,” this short film...
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- 2021

The Ring
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A short film made during lockdown.
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