Bill Morrison Movies

  • 2012
    Gene Takes a Drink

    Gene Takes a Drink

    Gene Takes a Drink

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    An experimental film by Bill Morrison.

    Gene Takes a Drink
  • 1990
    Night Highway

    Night Highway

    Night Highway

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    B/W visualization of the highway during the night.

    Night Highway
  • 2010
    Spark of Being

    Spark of Being

    Spark of Being

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    Spark of Being, a close adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel Frankenstein, explores the thematic interchangeability of three of the...

    Spark of Being
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2007
    Fuel

    Fuel

    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.

    Fuel
  • 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
  • 2017
    Dawson City: Postscript

    Dawson City: Postscript

    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...

    Dawson City: Postscript
  • 2002
    Trinity

    Trinity

    Trinity

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    Explores Man's tendency to reduce the world into discrete intervals so that it might be more readily analyzed, even if not wholly understood.

    Trinity
  • 1996
    Moda

    Moda

    Moda

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    Hauntingly beautiful preparation for the fashion show followed by the show itself.

    Moda
  • 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
  • 2016
    The Unchanging Sea

    The Unchanging Sea

    The Unchanging Sea

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    The film The Unchanging Sea (2018) was inspired by the discovery of a decaying print of DW Griffith's The Unchanging Sea (1910) in the nitrate vaults...

    The Unchanging Sea
  • 2010
    Stargazer

    Stargazer

    Stargazer

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

    Stargazer
  • 1991
    Lost Avenues

    Lost Avenues

    Lost Avenues

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    A film by Bill Morrison.

    Lost Avenues
  • 2011
    Tributes: Pulse

    Tributes: Pulse

    Tributes: Pulse

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    'Tributes-Pulse' is a collaboration between American filmmaker Bill Morrison and Danish composer and percussionist Simon Christensen. Christensen...

    Tributes: Pulse
  • 1993
    The Death Train

    The Death Train

    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...

    The Death Train
  • 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
    Dystopia

    Dystopia

    Dystopia

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    A film symphony inspired by Los Angeles.

    Dystopia
  • 1999
    City Walk

    City Walk

    City Walk

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

    City Walk