Bill Morrison Movies
- 2017
Dawson City: Frozen Time
Dawson City: Frozen Time6.82017HD
The true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s to 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until being discovered buried in a...
- 2017
Cinema of Decay: The Films of Bill Morrison
Cinema of Decay: The Films of Bill Morrison72017HD
This documentary focuses on the artistry of director Bill Morrison, who leverages decaying film stock from years past to tell new stories that are...
- 2005
Mutual Appreciation
Mutual Appreciation5.92005HD
Alan is a musician who leaves a busted-up band for New York, and a new musical voyage. He tries to stay focused and fends off all manner of...
- 2021
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle42021HD
Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective...
- 2013
Re: Awakenings
Re: Awakenings6.12013HD
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...
- 2020
Silents, Please! A Love Letter to the Silent Era
Silents, Please! A Love Letter to the Silent Era02020HD
A TCM original production on why silent movies matter, featuring new interviews with Honorary Academy Award winner Kevin Brownlow, filmmaker Bill...
- 2018
The Letter
The Letter02018HD
Using the discarded, deteriorating remnants from seven silent film titles, filmmaker Bill Morrison braids a story of intertwining love triangles that...
- 2010
Release
Release6.52010HD
On March 17, 1930, a crowd assembled outside Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary in hopes of witnessing Al Capone's release from prison....
- 2015
Pop Meets the Void
Pop Meets the Void02015HD
Shapeshifting between stardom and anonymity, an unhinged musician navigates a hyperreal combination of live action and animation daydreams in a...
- 2004
Light Is Calling
Light Is Calling6.62004HD
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 life...
- 2010
The Miners' Hymns
The Miners' Hymns7.52010HD
The ill-fated coal mining communities in North East England are the subject of this inspired documentary by multi-media artist Bill Morrison. Their...
- 2003
The Mesmerist
The Mesmerist82003HD
Made by re-editing a deteriorated nitrate print of The Bells (1926), starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff, this work shows the fragility of...
- 2014
Back to the Soil
Back to the Soil42014HD
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...
- 2013
Rite of Spring
Rite of Spring02013HD
Black-and-white film projections by Bill Morrison, using archival footage of frigid Arctic scenes.
- 2006
The Highwater Trilogy
The Highwater Trilogy62006HD
Divided into three sections, Bill Morrison's The Highwater Trilogy examines our relationship to the threat of natural disaster by combining archival...
- 2002
Decasia: The State of Decay
Decasia: The State of Decay6.42002HD
A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.
- 2024
The Vanguard Tapes
The Vanguard Tapes02024HD
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...
- 1990
Night Highway
Night Highway61990HD
B/W visualization of the highway during the night.
- 2021
Buried News
Buried News02021HD
Frequent Kronos collaborator Bill Morrison uses rare, early-20th century news footage to uncover ways that narratives about race have been used in...
- 1999
City Walk
City Walk5.21999HD
An early Bill Morrison short, in this work he traverses an urban landscape utilizing high contrast black and white footage. The bustling nature of...