Bill Morrison Movies

  • 2004
    Light Is Calling

    Light Is Calling

    Light Is Calling

    6.62004HD

    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...

    Light Is Calling
  • 2012
    Gene Takes a Drink

    Gene Takes a Drink

    Gene Takes a Drink

    02012HD

    An experimental film by Bill Morrison.

    Gene Takes a Drink
  • 1993
    The Death Train

    The Death Train

    The Death Train

    71993HD

    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
  • 2014
    Back to the Soil

    Back to the Soil

    Back to the Soil

    42014HD

    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...

    Back to the Soil
  • 2012
    Just Ancient Loops

    Just Ancient Loops

    Just Ancient Loops

    5.62012HD

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

    Just Ancient Loops
  • 2013
    Bill Morrison: The Film Archaeologist

    Bill Morrison: The Film Archaeologist

    Bill Morrison: The Film Archaeologist

    02013HD

    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...

    Bill Morrison: The Film Archaeologist
  • 2012
    Koller and Freud

    Koller and Freud

    Koller and Freud

    02012HD

    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...

    Koller and Freud
  • 2018
    Buried and Breaking Away

    Buried and Breaking Away

    Buried and Breaking Away

    02018HD

    Buried and Breaking Away demonstrates the effect of Bloomington, Indiana’s elements on one of its favorite cinematic progenies.

    Buried and Breaking Away
  • 2016
    Little Orphant Annie

    Little Orphant Annie

    Little Orphant Annie

    02016HD

    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...

    Little Orphant Annie
  • 1990
    Night Highway

    Night Highway

    Night Highway

    61990HD

    B/W visualization of the highway during the night.

    Night Highway
  • 2011
    Tributes: Pulse

    Tributes: Pulse

    Tributes: Pulse

    02011HD

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

    Tributes: Pulse