Bill Morrison Movies
- 2007
Who by Water
Who by Water5.82007HD
Drawing from a passage from the Rosh Hashana Service, “Who shall live, who shall die… who by water, who by fire,” this short film...
- 2006
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...
- 2020
Silents, Please! A Love Letter to the Silent Era
Silents, Please! A Love Letter to the Silent Era02020HD
A TCM original production on why silent movies matter, featuring new interviews with Honorary Academy Award winner Kevin Brownlow, filmmaker Bill...
- 1993
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...
- 2000
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...
- 2021
Her Violet Kiss
Her Violet Kiss02021HD
A woman attends a party where she is observed by and finally meets a mysterious guest.
- 1995
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...
- 2007
Fuel
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Fuel was premiered in a multi-media performance with a film by Bill Morrison at the Kaispeicher B Warehouse at the port of Hamburg, Germany, in 2007.
- 2017
Dawson City: Postscript
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Following on from Bill Morrison's feature Dawson City: Frozen Time, a short film, Dawson City: Postscript (10 min, 2017) details the journey this...
- 1992
Footprints
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Early Bill Morrison film from 1992, black & white, 16mm.
- 2016
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 -...
- 2012
Koller and Freud
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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...
- 1994
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...
- 2016
The Dockworker's Dream
The Dockworker's Dream72016HD
Drawing from Portugal’s rich heritage of shipping, trade, and exploration, “The Dockworker's Dream” takes the viewer on a journey...
- 2012
Gene Takes a Drink
Gene Takes a Drink02012HD
An experimental film by Bill Morrison.
- 1991
Lost Avenues
Lost Avenues61991HD
A film by Bill Morrison.
- 2014
Beyond Zero: 1914-1918
Beyond Zero: 1914-19185.92014HD
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...
- 2020
Curly Takes a Bath by the Sea
Curly Takes a Bath by the Sea02020HD
a serene and endearing cat-cam video, made during lockdown and scored by Bill Frisell.
- 1996
Cross Country
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Directed by Bill Morrison
- 2018
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...