Direction: Bill Morrison
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Bill Morrison. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Dawson City: Frozen Time
2016 · Documentary · 120 min. · United States
Direction Bill Morrison
Plot Dawson City: Frozen Time, pieces together the bizarre true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s - 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until...
7.3
168 votes
7.3
168 votes
Decasia
2002 · Documentary · 70 min. · United States
Direction Bill Morrison
Plot A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.
6.9
315 votes
6.9
315 votes
Light Is Calling (S)
2004 · Documentary · 8 min. · United States
Direction Bill Morrison
Plot A scene from a deteriorating print of James Youngs The Bells (1926) was optically printed and re-edited to Michael Gordons 7 minute composition. A meditation on the nature of random...
6.5
130 votes
6.5
130 votes
The Highwater Trilogy
2006 · Documentary · 31 min. · United States
Direction Bill Morrison
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Night Highway (S)
1990 · Movie · 9 min. · United States
Direction Bill Morrison
Plot Visualization of a road in black and white, during the night.
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Ghost Trip
2001 · Movie · 23 min. · United States
Direction Bill Morrison
Cast Kofi Darko · Herman Dennis · Slink Moss · William Schwartz
Plot A man is shown his car, which he drives until it can be driven no more.
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The Mesmerist (S)
2003 · Movie · 16 min. · United States
Direction Bill Morrison
Cast Lionel Barrymore · Boris Karloff · Laura La Varnie · E. Alyn Warren
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The Film of Her (S)
1997 · Documentary · 12 min. · United States
Direction Bill Morrison
Cast Stephen Kellam · Bob McGrath · Rachel Perkoff
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The Unchanging Sea
2018 · Documentary · 30 min. · United States
Direction Bill Morrison
Plot The film was inspired by the discovery of a decaying print of DW Griffith's 'The Unchanging Sea' (1910) in the nitrate vaults of the Library of Congress. Taking this ancient...
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Photo Op (S)
1992 · Documentary · 5 min. · United States
Direction Bill Morrison
Plot Excerpt from the 60 minute film commissioned for the Conrad Cummings opera of the same title, which was produced by Ridge Theater and staged at La Mama, New York, in...
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Trinity (S)
2002 · Documentary · 12 min. · United States
Direction Bill Morrison
Plot Explores Man's tendency to reduce the world into discrete intervals so that it might be more readily analyzed, even if not wholly understood.
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Her Violet Kiss (S)
2021 · Movie · 5 min. · United States
Direction Bill Morrison
Cast Olga Tschekowa · Henri Baudin
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Spark of Being
2010 · Documentary · 68 min. · United States
Direction Bill Morrison
Plot Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' found footage adaptation.
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Release (S)
2010 · Documentary · 13 min. · United States
Direction Bill Morrison
Plot On March 17, 1930, a crowd assembled outside Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary to witness Al Capone's transfer to Chicago, where he would stand trial. Filmmaker Bill Morrison and composer Vijay...
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Beyond Zero: 1914-1918
2014 · Documentary · 41 min. · United States
Direction Bill Morrison
Plot 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...
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Re: Awakenings (S)
2013 · Documentary · 18 min. · United States
Direction Bill Morrison
Cast Oliver Sacks
Plot During the early 1920s, a rare form of encephalitis lethargica swept the world, afflicting hundreds of thousands of people. Of those who survived, many were left in mysteriously frozen, nearly...
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The Dockworker's Dream (S)
2016 · Documentary · 18 min. · Portugal
Direction Bill Morrison
Plot Drawing from Portugal's rich heritage of shipping, trade, and exploration, 'The Dockworker¹s Dream' takes the viewer on a journey downriver, into port, into factories, towns, and families, and out into...
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The Great Flood
2012 · Documentary · 78 min. · United States
Direction Bill Morrison
Plot Director Bill Morrison weaves together compelling archival footage of the great Mississippi flood of 1927, complemented by a superb Bill Frisell original score. That flood led to an exodus of...
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