Bill Morrison Movies
- 2013
Rite of Spring
Rite of Spring02013HD
Black-and-white film projections by Bill Morrison, using archival footage of frigid Arctic scenes.
- 2006
Porch
Porch5.62006HD
Film by Bill Morrison. Music by Julia Wolfe. Libretto by Deborah Artman.
- 1992
Photo Op
Photo Op5.81992HD
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...
- 2003
East River
East River5.52003HD
A brief glimpse of Manhattan's skin. Music by Michael Gordon.
- 1991
Lost Avenues
Lost Avenues61991HD
A film by Bill Morrison.
- 2024
Incident
Incident82024HD
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...
- 2006
The Highwater Trilogy
The Highwater Trilogy62006HD
Divided into three sections, Bill Morrison's The Highwater Trilogy examines our relationship to the threat of natural disaster by combining archival...
- 2010
Stargazer
Stargazer02010HD
Video by Bill Morrison created for the Ridge Theater production of "Persephone", with music by Ben Neill and Mimi Goese. The staged production was...
- 2020
Curly’s Thanksgiving
Curly’s Thanksgiving02020HD
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!)
- 1970
DawnPatrol
DawnPatrol01970HD
An adventure from the point of view of a fly.
- 1995
Nemo
Nemo51995HD
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...
- 2012
Just Ancient Loops
Just Ancient Loops5.62012HD
'Just Ancient Loops' employs high resolution scans of ancient nitrate footage, as well as newly created CGI renderings of space to depict different...
- 1990
Night Highway
Night Highway61990HD
B/W visualization of the highway during the night.
- 2018
The Letter
The Letter02018HD
Using the discarded, deteriorating remnants from seven silent film titles, filmmaker Bill Morrison braids a story of intertwining love triangles that...
- 2020
Sunken Films
Sunken Films02020HD
A collection of films that have been found, or remain, on the Ocean's floor.
- 1996
The Film of Her
The Film of Her6.31996HD
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,...
- 1996
Cross Country
Cross Country01996HD
Directed by Bill Morrison
- 2008
Every Stop on the F Train
Every Stop on the F Train02008HD
A self-explanatory film by Bill Morrison, with music by Michael Gordon, performed by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City.
- 2014
Back to the Soil
Back to the Soil42014HD
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...
- 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...