Bill Morrison Movies

A TCM original production on why silent movies matter, featuring new interviews with Honorary Academy Award winner Kevin Brownlow, filmmaker Bill...

A city symphony inspired by New York

Drawing from a passage from the Rosh Hashana Service, “Who shall live, who shall die… who by water, who by fire,” this short film...

A woman attends a party where she is observed by and finally meets a mysterious guest.

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...

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...

A short film made during lockdown.

Explores Man's tendency to reduce the world into discrete intervals so that it might be more readily analyzed, even if not wholly understood.

Film by Bill Morrison. Music by Julia Wolfe. Libretto by Deborah Artman.

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

Originally produced for the opera "The Death Train of Baron Von Frankenstein". The opera was conceived and written by John Moran, directed for the...

The film depicts the Lumière Brothers discussing and examining their Cinématographe machine. This film has traveled through time since...

B/W visualization of the highway during the night.

An English translation of ‘Kol Nidre’, the incantation that begins the Yom Kippur service and which pre-emptively nullifies any future...

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...

A short film by Bill Morrison

a serene and endearing cat-cam video, made during lockdown and scored by Bill Frisell.

Black-and-white film projections by Bill Morrison, using archival footage of frigid Arctic scenes.

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

The wind swirls up dust in a desert landscape. The picture is followed by images of clouds racing over the skyline of a city, of reflections on an...