Drawing from a passage from the Rosh Hashana Service, “Who shall live, who shall die… who by water, who by fire,” this short film deals with that which has been preordained—a future history that will in time unfold before us as the faces of passengers on a ship forces us to contemplate our own fate.

Divided into three sections, Bill Morrison's The Highwater Trilogy examines our relationship to the threat of natural disaster by combining archival footage of icebergs, hurricanes, and floods with a soundtrack by David Lang and Michael Gordon.

A collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The Cube.

In 2018, Chicago barber Harith “Snoop” Augustus is shot dead by police on his way to work. Incident first shows this shocking event from a distance, a view from above. This is followed by a chilling reconstruction based on footage from different angles and viewpoints, including surveillance cameras, and the dashboard cameras and bodycams of the officers present. At a certain point, different perspectives are combined in split-screen, intensely conveying the chaos, and the anger and desperation of the bystanders. Some know the victim. They see that he’s still breathing. Gradually a disconcerting picture unfolds not only of the shooting incident itself, but also of the immediate aftermath. Where do the priority’s of the police officers involved lie? 源自：

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

“let me come in" is a compelling and hypnotic musical jewel from composer David Lang and director Bill Morrison. Soprano Angel Blue’s radiant vocals breathe new life into rediscovered fragments of a long-forgotten silent film to astonishing effect, with accompaniment from Bryan Wagorn, David Creswell, Anja Wood and Miles Salerni. Get lost in this intimate world of desire and transport yourself into a fascinating glimpse of the not-so-distant past. One of the #LAOperaOnNow Digital Shorts

The Mississippi River Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in American history. In the spring of 1927, the river broke out of its banks in 145 places and inundated 27,000 square miles to a depth of up to 30 feet. Part of it enduring legacy was the mass exodus of displaced sharecroppers. Musically, the Great Migration of rural southern blacks to Northern cities saw the Delta Blues electrified and reinterpreted as the Chicago Blues, Rhythm and Blues, and Rock and Roll. Using minimal text and no spoken dialog, filmmaker Bill Morrison and composer - guitarist Bill Frisell have created a powerful portrait of a seminal moment in American history through a collection of silent images matched to a searing original soundtrack.

Filmmaker Bill Morrison has forged an unmistakable style working with found celluloid to emphasize the effects of time and neglect on its delicate layers. Linking the physical materiality of film to its affective capacity for visceral, emotional command, his prolific body of work is manna for those who dream of nitrate sheep. Part of Prismaticground festival.

Using the discarded, deteriorating remnants from seven silent film titles, filmmaker Bill Morrison braids a story of intertwining love triangles that pivots between the accounts of two women.

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective (Деревенский детектив), a 1969 Soviet film—, caught in the nets of an Icelandic trawler, is the first step in a fascinating journey through the artistic life of film and stage actor Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov (1899-1981), icon and star of an entire era of Russian cinema.

'Just Ancient Loops' employs high resolution scans of ancient nitrate footage, as well as newly created CGI renderings of space to depict different views of heaven.

The ill-fated coal mining communities in North East England are the subject of this inspired documentary by multi-media artist Bill Morrison. Their story is told entirely without words, yet the film is far from silent: it features a remarkable original score by the Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson.

'All Vows' is an English translation of 'Kol Nidre', the incantation that begins the Yom Kippur service and which pre-emptively nullifies any future vows made unintentionally. The film uses ancient archival films to depict an unknowable future, reflected through a dissolving historic document.

A family's front porch evolves into another interior room of their House, in turn reflecting their relationshin to a changing community.

Based on the story of Howard Walls, A clerk at the Library of Congress who saved a collection of early paper reel films from the incinerator, director Bill Morrison embellishes the tale a bit in this inspired short work. Here, the vision of a woman in an early porno film has been engrained in the mind of a man working at the Library of Congress and his search for the film of her has an unexpected consequence, as he saves a collection of historically significant films from being destroyed.

Ghost Trip 23 min., b/w, 35mm optical, 1:1.85, 621m (2070ft.), 2000 "He rose up from the Dead". The Driver of a Cadillac hearse journeys from one end of the film to the other, picking up and finally delivering a wayward soul. Combining verité filmmaking with a highly stylized visual design, "Ghost Trip" weaves an hallucinatory re-imagining of the American road as a state of Limbo. Jurors' Choice (top award) - Black Maria Film & Video Festival, 2001 An Hypnotic Pictures Production Written, directed, produced, photographed and edited by Bill Morrison Soundscape by Michael Montes

美国实验电影制作者比尔·莫里森2004年的新作《Light Is Calling》，取材于James Young的早期歌特无声电影《The Bells》（1926）中的一段情节，讲男女主人公的第一次相遇，但叙事情节在这部短片中已经非常模糊和抽象化了，更主要的是莫里森对胶片和其他影像实体所采取的燃烧，溶解等手段所创造出来一种极端意识流让人眼花缭乱的画面，背景音乐依然来自莫里森的老搭挡，美国实验音乐家迈克·戈登（Michael Gordon），资料来源于比尔·莫里森实验作品全集。

In 1899, a photographer at American Mutoscope & Biograph mounted his camera on the front of a trolley traveling over the Brooklyn Bridge. The three 90-foot rolls he created were edited together to complete the journey from Manhattan to Brooklyn, entitled Across the Brooklyn Bridge. As a commission by the Museum of Modern Art for the re-opening of their facility in a new design by architect Yoshio Taniguchi, Bill Morrison took this remarkable footage and recombined it with itself to form a new split-screen extrapolation.

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 a sub-arctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon Territory, in Dawson City, located about 350 miles south of the Arctic Circle.