Bill Morrison Movies

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

A self-explanatory film by Bill Morrison, with music by Michael Gordon, performed by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City.

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...

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,...

Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Pawns of Passion (1928).

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

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

The Mississippi River Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in American history. In the spring of 1927, the river broke out of its banks...

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...

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...

A collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The Cube.

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

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...

A city symphony inspired by New York

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...

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

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

A short film made during lockdown.

The film depicts the Lumière Brothers discussing and examining their Cinématographe machine. This film has traveled through time since...

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...