Bill Morrison Movies

  • 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
  • 1996
    Cross Country

    Cross Country

    Cross Country

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    Directed by Bill Morrison

    Cross Country
  • 1995
    Nemo

    Nemo

    Nemo

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    The wind swirls up dust in a desert landscape. The picture is followed by images of clouds racing over the skyline of a city, of reflections on an...

    Nemo
  • 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
  • 2010
    Spark of Being

    Spark of Being

    Spark of Being

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    Spark of Being, a close adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel Frankenstein, explores the thematic interchangeability of three of the...

    Spark of Being
  • 2006
    Porch

    Porch

    Porch

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    Film by Bill Morrison. Music by Julia Wolfe. Libretto by Deborah Artman.

    Porch
  • 1996
    Vigneti

    Vigneti

    Vigneti

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    A short film by Bill Morrison

    Vigneti
  • 1994
    The World Is Round

    The World Is Round

    The World Is Round

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    Originally planned as part of Michael Kanieckis play, «Howard Hughes: The World Is Round», the film follows the internal monologue of...

    The World Is Round
  • 2007
    Who by Water

    Who by Water

    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...

    Who by Water
  • 2013
    All Vows

    All Vows

    All Vows

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

    All Vows
  • 2018
    Weaving

    Weaving

    Weaving

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    An examination of weaving and the loom as the predecessor to modern-day computing. Using punched cards, weaving programs were designed for looms in...

    Weaving
  • 1993
    The Death Train

    The Death Train

    The Death Train

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    Originally produced for the opera "The Death Train of Baron Von Frankenstein". The opera was conceived and written by John Moran, directed for the...

    The Death Train
  • 2020
    Sunken Films

    Sunken Films

    Sunken Films

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    A collection of films that have been found, or remain, on the Ocean's floor.

    Sunken Films
  • 2008
    Dystopia

    Dystopia

    Dystopia

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    A film symphony inspired by Los Angeles.

    Dystopia
  • 2012
    Gene Takes a Drink

    Gene Takes a Drink

    Gene Takes a Drink

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    An experimental film by Bill Morrison.

    Gene Takes a Drink
  • 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
  • 2020
    Curly Takes a Bath by the Sea

    Curly Takes a Bath by the Sea

    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.

    Curly Takes a Bath by the Sea
  • 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
  • 1970
    DawnPatrol

    DawnPatrol

    DawnPatrol

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    An adventure from the point of view of a fly.

    DawnPatrol
  • 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