Bill Morrison Movies

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...

An adventure from the point of view of a fly.

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

A short film made during lockdown.

Video by Bill Morrison created for the Ridge Theater production of "Persephone", with music by Ben Neill and Mimi Goese. The staged production was...

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

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

B/W visualization of the highway during the night.

A film symphony inspired by Los Angeles.

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

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

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,...

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

Directed by Bill Morrison

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective...

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

A woman attends a party where she is observed by and finally meets a mysterious guest.

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...

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!)

Using the discarded, deteriorating remnants from seven silent film titles, filmmaker Bill Morrison braids a story of intertwining love triangles that...