Bill Morrison Filmes

  • 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
  • 2017
    Cinema of Decay: The Films of Bill Morrison

    Cinema of Decay: The Films of Bill Morrison

    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...

    Cinema of Decay: The Films of Bill Morrison
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2011
    DawnPatrol

    DawnPatrol

    DawnPatrol

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    An adventure from the point of view of a fly.

    DawnPatrol
  • 2020
    Curly’s Thanksgiving

    Curly’s Thanksgiving

    Curly’s Thanksgiving

    02020HD

    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!)

    Curly’s Thanksgiving
  • 1992
    Photo Op

    Photo Op

    Photo Op

    5.81992HD

    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
  • 1996
    Moda

    Moda

    Moda

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

    Moda
  • 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
  • 2020
    Curly Takes a Bath by the Sea

    Curly Takes a Bath by the Sea

    Curly Takes a Bath by the Sea

    02020HD

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

    Curly Takes a Bath by the Sea
  • 2013
    Bill Morrison: The Film Archaeologist

    Bill Morrison: The Film Archaeologist

    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...

    Bill Morrison: The Film Archaeologist
  • 2024
    Must Have Meant

    Must Have Meant

    Must Have Meant

    02024HD

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

    Must Have Meant
  • 2003
    East River

    East River

    East River

    5.52003HD

    A brief glimpse of Manhattan's skin. Music by Michael Gordon.

    East River
  • 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
  • 2025
    Ghost of the Past

    Ghost of the Past

    Ghost of the Past

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    Using newly discovered fragments of a French film, Morrison reconstructs the film.

    Ghost of the Past
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2007
    Peoples House

    Peoples House

    Peoples House

    52007HD

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

    Peoples House
  • 2007
    Who by Water

    Who by Water

    Who by Water

    5.82007HD

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

    Who by Water
  • 2021
    The Ring

    The Ring

    The Ring

    02021HD

    A short film made during lockdown.

    The Ring