Bill Morrison

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Incident
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Incident

Incident 2023

Incident

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 ...
The Highwater Trilogy
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The Highwater Trilogy

The Highwater Trilogy 2006

The Highwater Trilogy

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

Decasia 2002

Decasia

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

Just Ancient Loops 2012

Just Ancient Loops

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

City Walk 1999

City Walk

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

The Mesmerist 2003

The Mesmerist

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

Outerborough 2005

Outerborough

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

Ghost Trip 2000

Ghost Trip

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 ...
The Letter
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The Letter

The Letter 2018

The Letter

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

Dawson City: Frozen Time 2017

Dawson City: Frozen Time

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 ...