Bill Morrison Movies

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

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...

The ill-fated coal mining communities in North East England are the subject of this inspired documentary by multi-media artist Bill Morrison. Their...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

This documentary focuses on the artistry of director Bill Morrison, who leverages decaying film stock from years past to tell new stories that are...

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...

Divided into three sections, Bill Morrison's The Highwater Trilogy examines our relationship to the threat of natural disaster by combining archival...

Black-and-white film projections by Bill Morrison, using archival footage of frigid Arctic scenes.

An experimental film by Bill Morrison.

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...

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

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

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

Following on from Bill Morrison's feature Dawson City: Frozen Time, a short film, Dawson City: Postscript (10 min, 2017) details the journey this...

Previously unheard interviews with Kemp Niver and Howard Walls from 1992, the two men who helped discover and restore the earliest film collection -...