Bill Morrison

INCIDENT reconstructs a 2018 police shooting in Chicago, reassembling the event and its immediate aftermath from a variety of sources, including ...

In 1899, a photographer at American Mutoscope & Biograph mounted his camera on the front of a trolley traveling over the Brooklyn Bridge. ...

‘Just Ancient Loops’ employs high resolution scans of ancient nitrate footage, as well as newly created CGI renderings of space to ...

A scene from The Bells (1926) is optically reprinted and edited to Michael Gordon’s 7 minute composition. A meditation on the fleeting ...

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 ...

The true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s to 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until being discovered buried in ...

On March 17, 1930, a crowd assembled outside Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary to witness Al Capone’s transfer to Chicago, ...

The ill-fated coal mining communities in North East England are the subject of this inspired documentary by multi-media artist 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 ...

‘All Vows’ is an English translation of ‘Kol Nidre’, the incantation that begins the Yom Kippur service and which ...

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

Little Orphant Annie (2016) is a re-edit of a silent film of the same title from 1918, directed by Colin Campbell, and starring Colleen Moore. ...

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

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

A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score. ...

Drawing from a passage from the Rosh Hashana Service, “Who shall live, who shall die. who by water, who by fire,” this short film ...

Made by re-editing a deteriorated nitrate print of The Bells (1926), starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff, this work shows the fragility ...

Divided into three sections, Bill Morrison’s The Highwater Trilogy examines our relationship to the threat of natural disaster by combining ...

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, ...

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