Bill Morrison Movies

  • 1996
    Vigneti

    Vigneti

    Vigneti

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    A short film by Bill Morrison

    Vigneti
  • 1991
    Lost Avenues

    Lost Avenues

    Lost Avenues

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    A film by Bill Morrison.

    Lost Avenues
  • 1996
    Cross Country

    Cross Country

    Cross Country

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    Directed by Bill Morrison

    Cross Country
  • 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
  • 2020
    Silents, Please! A Love Letter to the Silent Era

    Silents, Please! A Love Letter to the Silent Era

    Silents, Please! A Love Letter to the Silent Era

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    A TCM original production on why silent movies matter, featuring new interviews with Honorary Academy Award winner Kevin Brownlow, filmmaker Bill...

    Silents, Please! A Love Letter to the Silent Era
  • 2000
    Ghost Trip

    Ghost Trip

    Ghost Trip

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    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...

    Ghost Trip
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2006
    The Highwater Trilogy

    The Highwater Trilogy

    The Highwater Trilogy

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

    The Highwater Trilogy
  • 2008
    Every Stop on the F Train

    Every Stop on the F Train

    Every Stop on the F Train

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

    Every Stop on the F Train
  • 2013
    Rite of Spring

    Rite of Spring

    Rite of Spring

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

    Rite of Spring
  • 2024
    Must Have Meant

    Must Have Meant

    Must Have Meant

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

    Must Have Meant
  • 1992
    Photo Op

    Photo Op

    Photo Op

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    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
  • 2004
    Light Is Calling

    Light Is Calling

    Light Is Calling

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    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...

    Light Is Calling
  • 2016
    Niver vs Walls

    Niver vs Walls

    Niver vs Walls

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

    Niver vs Walls
  • 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
  • 2012
    The Miners' Hymns

    The Miners' Hymns

    The Miners' Hymns

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

    The Miners' Hymns
  • 2020
    Curly’s Thanksgiving

    Curly’s Thanksgiving

    Curly’s Thanksgiving

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    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
  • 2012
    Just Ancient Loops

    Just Ancient Loops

    Just Ancient Loops

    5.62012HD

    'Just Ancient Loops' employs high resolution scans of ancient nitrate footage, as well as newly created CGI renderings of space to depict different...

    Just Ancient Loops