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

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The Film of Her (S)

1997 · Documentary · 12 min. · United States

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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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The Miners' Hymns

2010 · Documentary · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bill Morrison

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Her Violet Kiss (S)

2021 · Movie · 5 min. · United States

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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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City Walk (S)

1999 · Documentary · 6 min. · United States

Direction Bill Morrison

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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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