Bill Morrison Movies

Black-and-white film projections by Bill Morrison, using archival footage of frigid Arctic scenes.

Film by Bill Morrison. Music by Julia Wolfe. Libretto by Deborah Artman.

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...

A brief glimpse of Manhattan's skin. Music by Michael Gordon.

A film by Bill Morrison.

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...

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

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

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!)

An adventure from the point of view of a fly.

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...

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

B/W visualization of the highway during the night.

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

A collection of films that have been found, or remain, on the Ocean's floor.

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,...

Directed by Bill Morrison

A self-explanatory film by Bill Morrison, with music by Michael Gordon, performed by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City.

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...

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...