Bill Morrison Movies

a serene and endearing cat-cam video, made during lockdown and scored by Bill Frisell.

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

A short film made during lockdown.

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

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

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

An adventure from the point of view of a fly.

Early Bill Morrison film from 1992, black & white, 16mm.

The film depicts the Lumière Brothers discussing and examining their Cinématographe machine. This film has traveled through time since...

Directed by Bill Morrison

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...

Corabelle, an orange tabby, wanders through a snowy East Village community garden, pondering the possibility of connection. With a soundtrack by...

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...

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...

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

B/W visualization of the highway during the night.

A film by Bill Morrison.

Drawing from Portugal’s rich heritage of shipping, trade, and exploration, “The Dockworker's Dream” takes the viewer on a journey...

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

Explores Man's tendency to reduce the world into discrete intervals so that it might be more readily analyzed, even if not wholly understood.