Who By Water
Reassembly: The Films of Bill Morrison
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17m
Directed by Bill Morrison | 17 mins | 2007
A rumination on the concept of preordination made with silent archival footage of anonymous ship passengers.
Up Next in Reassembly: The Films of Bill Morrison
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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... -
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.
