Bill Morrison Movies

In 1924, Jewish tradesmen in the newly-formed Soviet Union relocated to the Ukraine, Belarus and Crimea to form farming colonies. The film is of a...

Early Bill Morrison film from 1992, black & white, 16mm.

A city symphony inspired by New York

Little Orphant Annie is a re-edit of a silent film of the same title from 1918, directed by Colin Campbell. Two reels from an original nitrate print...

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

Corabelle, an orange tabby, wanders through a snowy East Village community garden, pondering the possibility of connection. With a soundtrack by...

Based on the story of Howard Walls, A clerk at the Library of Congress who saved a collection of early paper reel films from the incinerator,...

A self-explanatory film by Bill Morrison, with music by Michael Gordon, performed by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City.

A short film made during lockdown.

Frequent Kronos collaborator Bill Morrison uses rare, early-20th century news footage to uncover ways that narratives about race have been used in...

Spark of Being, a close adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel Frankenstein, explores the thematic interchangeability of three of the...

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

An early Bill Morrison short, in this work he traverses an urban landscape utilizing high contrast black and white footage. The bustling nature of...

Hauntingly beautiful preparation for the fashion show followed by the show itself.

Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Pawns of Passion (1928).

In 1899, a photographer at American Mutoscope & Biograph mounted his camera on the front of a trolley traveling over the Brooklyn Bridge. The three...

Chicago, 2018. A man is killed by police on the street. Through a composite montage of images from surveillance and security footage as well as...

This is an excerpt from the 60-minute film commissioned for Conrad Cummings's opera of the same title, which was produced by Ridge Theater and staged...

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

A collection of films that have been found, or remain, on the Ocean's floor.