Bill Morrison Movies
- 2021
The Ring
The Ring02021HD
A short film made during lockdown.
- 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!)
- 2020
Curly Takes a Bath by the Sea
Curly Takes a Bath by the Sea02020HD
a serene and endearing cat-cam video, made during lockdown and scored by Bill Frisell.
- 2020
Sunken Films
Sunken Films02020HD
A collection of films that have been found, or remain, on the Ocean's floor.
- 2020
Silents, Please! A Love Letter to the Silent Era
Silents, Please! A Love Letter to the Silent Era02020HD
A TCM original production on why silent movies matter, featuring new interviews with Honorary Academy Award winner Kevin Brownlow, filmmaker Bill...
- 2014
The Film That Buys the Cinema
The Film That Buys the Cinema02014HD
A collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The Cube.
- 2018
Cinematograph
Cinematograph02018HD
The film depicts the Lumière Brothers discussing and examining their Cinématographe machine. This film has traveled through time since...
- 2018
Buried and Breaking Away
Buried and Breaking Away02018HD
Buried and Breaking Away demonstrates the effect of Bloomington, Indiana’s elements on one of its favorite cinematic progenies.
- 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...
- 2018
Weaving
Weaving02018HD
An examination of weaving and the loom as the predecessor to modern-day computing. Using punched cards, weaving programs were designed for looms in...
- 2017
Dawson City: Postscript
Dawson City: Postscript02017HD
Following on from Bill Morrison's feature Dawson City: Frozen Time, a short film, Dawson City: Postscript (10 min, 2017) details the journey this...
- 2016
Niver vs Walls
Niver vs Walls02016HD
Previously unheard interviews with Kemp Niver and Howard Walls from 1992, the two men who helped discover and restore the earliest film collection -...
- 2016
The Unchanging Sea
The Unchanging Sea02016HD
The film The Unchanging Sea (2018) was inspired by the discovery of a decaying print of DW Griffith's The Unchanging Sea (1910) in the nitrate vaults...
- 2016
Little Orphant Annie
Little Orphant Annie02016HD
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...
- 2004
Gotham
Gotham02004HD
A city symphony inspired by New York
- 2013
All Vows
All Vows02013HD
An English translation of ‘Kol Nidre’, the incantation that begins the Yom Kippur service and which pre-emptively nullifies any future...
- 2012
Koller and Freud
Koller and Freud02012HD
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...
- 2011
DawnPatrol
DawnPatrol02011HD
An adventure from the point of view of a fly.
- 2013
Rite of Spring
Rite of Spring02013HD
Black-and-white film projections by Bill Morrison, using archival footage of frigid Arctic scenes.
- 2012
Gene Takes a Drink
Gene Takes a Drink02012HD
An experimental film by Bill Morrison.