Dawson City: Frozen Time

Dawson City: Frozen Time

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...

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Decasia: The State of Decay

Decasia: The State of Decay

A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.

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Light Is Calling

Light Is Calling

A scene from The Bells (1926) is optically reprinted and edited to Michael Gordon's 7 minute composition. A meditation on the fleeting nature of...

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The Mesmerist

The Mesmerist

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

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The Vanguard Tapes

The Vanguard Tapes

A series of conversations and monologues captured in the kitchen of the famous Vanguard jazz club in New York’s Greenwich Village in 1994- 95 by...

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The Miners' Hymns

The Miners' Hymns

The ill-fated coal mining communities in North East England are the subject of this inspired documentary by multi-media artist Bill Morrison. Their...

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The Great Flood

The Great Flood

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...

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The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective...

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The Film That Buys the Cinema

The Film That Buys the Cinema

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

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Re: Awakenings

Re: Awakenings

Original Super 8 footage shot by Dr. Oliver Sacks of his patients at Beth Abraham Hospital, Bronx, NY, who were administered the drug L-Dopa in the...

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The Letter

The Letter

Using the discarded, deteriorating remnants from seven silent film titles, filmmaker Bill Morrison braids a story of intertwining love triangles...

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Ghost Trip

Ghost Trip

Singer-songwriter Slink Moss plays the mysterious driver of a Cadillac hearse who journeys across America to pick up and drop off a hitchhiker to...

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Koller and Freud

Koller and Freud

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 Freud...

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Beyond Zero: 1914-1918

Beyond Zero: 1914-1918

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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let me come in

let me come in

Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Pawns of Passion (1928).

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Tributes: Pulse

Tributes: Pulse

'Tributes-Pulse' is a collaboration between American filmmaker Bill Morrison and Danish composer and percussionist Simon Christensen. Christensen...

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Buried News

Buried News

Frequent Kronos collaborator Bill Morrison uses rare, early-20th century news footage to uncover ways that narratives about race have been used in...

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Incident

Incident

Chicago, 2018. A man is killed by police on the street. Through a composite montage of images from surveillance and security footage as well as...

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The Unchanging Sea

The Unchanging Sea

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...

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Release

Release

On March 17, 1930, a crowd assembled outside Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary in hopes of witnessing Al Capone's release from prison...

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