The Film of Her
Reassembly: The Films of Bill Morrison
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12m
Directed by Bill Morrison | 12 mins | 1996
“Morrison’s masterpiece may be… The Film of Her, a love lyric to cinema spun out of the true tale of a Library of Congress clerk, one Howard Walls, who in 1939 single-handedly prevented truckloads of the very earliest films from being burnt for space.”—San Francisco Weekly
Up Next in Reassembly: The Films of Bill Morrison
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Who By Water
Directed by Bill Morrison | 17 mins | 2007
A rumination on the concept of preordination made with silent archival footage of anonymous ship passengers. -
Light Is Calling
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". -
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...
