Light Is Calling
Reassembly: The Films of Bill Morrison
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8m 14s
Directed by Bill Morrison | 8 mins | 2004
Bang on a Can’s Michael Gordon lends his talents as composer to Morrison’s short "Light is Calling", which makes use of wistful, decayed footage from James Young’s 1926 film "The Bells".
Up Next in Reassembly: The Films of Bill Morrison
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The Mesmerist
Directed by Bill Morrison | 16 mins | 2003
A decay-pitted nitrate print of James Young’s 1926 Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff vehicle "The Bells" takes on an almost psychedelic, hallucinatory quality via Morrison’s re-edit, which sets a scene at the carnival midway to an ominous, rumbling scor... -
The Letter
Directed by Bill Morrison | 12 mins | 2018
A story of overlapping love triangles told through the accounts of two women, made with the deteriorating remnants of silent film intertitles. -
Her Violet Kiss
Directed by Bill Morrison | 5 mins | 2021
Produced during—and obliquely referent to—the pandemic years, Morrison’s film re-cuts and re-contextualizes a scene from a partially lost German silent, 1928’s "Liebeshölle" aka "Pawns of Passion", matched with an atmospheric score by Peruvian American co...
