Shorts Competition juror.
His work is the subject of a retrospective at 19th MDAG.
Bill Morrison makes films that reframe long-forgotten moving images. His films have premiered at the New York, Rotterdam, Sundance, and Venice film festivals. In 2014 Morrison had a mid-career retrospective at MoMA. His found footage opus DECASIA (2002) was the first film of the 21st century to be selected to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. THE GREAT FLOOD (2013), was recognized with the Smithsonian Ingenuity Award of 2014 for historical scholarship. DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME (2016) was included on over 100 critics’ lists of the best films of the year, and on numerous lists ranking the best films of the decade, including those of the Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, and Vanity Fair.
FULL FILMOGRAPHY:
Her Violet Kiss (2021, 5 min)
Let me come in (2021, 11 min)
The Ring (2021, 8 min)
Buried News (2021, 13 min)
The Village Detective: a song cycle (2021, 81 min)
Curly’s Thanksgiving (2020, 12 min)
Sunken Films (2020, 11 min)
Curly Takes A Bath By The Sea (2020, 5 min)
Electricity (2018, 30 min)
The Unchanging Sea (2018, 30 min)
The Letter (2018, 13 min)
Weaving (2018, 6 min)
Dawson City: Postscript (2017, 10 min)
Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016, 120 min)
Niver vs Walls (2016, 17 min)
Little Orphant Annie (2016, 7 min)
The Dockworker’s Dream (2016, 17 min)
Gene Takes A Drink (2015, 6 min)
Back to the Soil (2014, 18 min)
Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 (2014, 41 min)
All Vows (2013, 10 min)
The Great Flood (2013, 78 min)
Re: Awakenings (2013, 18 min)
Just Ancient Loops (2012, 26 min)
A Trip To The Beach (2012, 12 min)
Tributes - Pulse (2011, 65 min)
The Miners' Hymns (2011, 52 min)
Spark of Being (2010, 68 min)
Release (2010, 13 min)
Every Stop On The F Train (2008, 5 min)
Who By Water (2007, 18 min)
The Highwater Trilogy (2006, 31 min)
How To Pray (2006, 11 min)
Outerborough (2005, 8 min)
Light Is Calling (2004, 8 min)
The Mesmerist (2003, 16 min)
Decasia (2002, 67 min)
Ghost Trip (2000, 23 min)
City Walk (1999, 6 min)
The Film of Her (1996, 12 min)
The Death Train (1993, 17 min)
Footprints (1992, 6 min)
Photo credit: Wolfgang Wesener
