Bill Morrison Movies

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

A short film made during lockdown.

A film symphony inspired by Los Angeles.

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

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...

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...

Drawing from Portugal’s rich heritage of shipping, trade, and exploration, “The Dockworker's Dream” takes the viewer on a journey...

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

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

In 1924, Jewish tradesmen in the newly-formed Soviet Union relocated to the Ukraine, Belarus and Crimea to form farming colonies. The film is of a...

An early Bill Morrison short, in this work he traverses an urban landscape utilizing high contrast black and white footage. The bustling nature of...