简介:PHOTO OP is a five-minute excerpt from the 60-minute film commissioned for Conrad Cummings' opera of the same title. Larry Adams is heard as the baritone, and Dora Ohrenstein as the soprano. James Sienna was the librettist. The opera was produced by Ridge Theater, directed by Bob McGrath, and staged at La Mama, NYC, in June, 1992.
简介:These four new shorts illustrate the broad possibilities of Morrison's concerns. A story of lost films found at sea, a serene and endearing cat-cam video scored by Bill Frisell, and two richly divergent re-narrativized examples of decay, they are as follows, clockwise from top to bottom left:
简介: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.
简介:Frequent Kronos collaborator Bill Morrison uses rare, early-20th century news footage to uncover ways that narratives about race have been used in the U.S. to divide people and maintain power.
简介:Filmmaker Bill Morrison has forged an unmistakeable 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
简介: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 the great unknown.
简介:'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.
简介:The Village Detective examines the historiography of Russian actor Mikhail Zharov's work on film, a career that included 70 film titles and numerous roles on stage, and spanned the entire Soviet era."
简介:A time-lapse journey up Flatbush Avenue into Manhattan. "City Walk" was originally created as part of the evening-length program "The Carbon Copy Building", which was produced by Bang On A Can, and staged by Ridge Theater.
简介: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.
简介:Original Super8 footage shot by Dr. Oliver Sacks of his patients at Beth Abraham Hospital, Bronx, NY, who were administered the drug L-Dopa in the summer of 1969, and "awakened" after decades of inactivity.