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Bill Morrison: Lecture and screenings

By Guillaume Lafleur on Sat, 20/06/2015 - 13:15

Talk by Bill Morrison – June 25 at 5 p.m., free admission

Director Bill Morrison is one of today’s leading experimental filmmakers. He is known for his method of reworking motion picture footage that he finds in various archives and using those plastic elements to recompose an original narrative. He has recently been interested in a collection of archival films that were preserved for decades in the permafrost in an abandoned swimming pool in Dawson City and are now deposited with Library and Archives Canada. It was in viewing these films that he came across forgotten footage of the 1919 World Series, which became infamous for the Black Sox Scandal,in which eight Chicago White Sox players conspired to intentionally lose the series in exchange for money. His talk will focus on how he made this discovery and his unique approach to filmmaking.

Dates:
Thursday, June 25, 2015 - 17:00 to Friday, June 26, 2015 - 22:55
Venue:
Cinémathèque québécoise - Montréal, Canada
Found Footage Magazine

By Marcos Ortega on Sat, 16/05/2015 - 06:12
Found Footage Magazine is an independent semi-annual publication distributed worldwide and printed both in English and Spanish, offering theoretical, analytical and informative contents related to found footage filmmaking. The contents for the first issue, to be released on October 2015, include the extensive monograph on Bill Morrison, 'A Poetic Archaeology of Cinema', by Matt Levine, plus an interview with the filmmaker; essays on the 'ethics of appropriation', and the work of Martin Arnold, Peter Tscherkassky and Santiago Álvarez. The issue also features several articles, including a recount of the most recent edition Festival of (In)appropiation by its director Jaimie Baron, and reviews of contemporary works and recently published books on found footage films.
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Bill Morrison: Selected Films 1996-2014
Over the past twenty years, Bill Morrison has built a filmography of more than thirty striking and original works which have been presented in cinemas, museums, galleries and concert halls worldwide. Making use of rare archival footage, which has often been decayed by the passing of time, Morrison explores the power of film as a medium which is evocative of memory and gives rise to a sense of collective mythology. Morrison's exquisite and timeless films are scored by the cream of the US underground / avant-garde music scene, including Dave Douglas, Henryk Górecki and Bill Frisell.

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Average: 4 (4 votes)
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Blu-Ray
Publisher:
British Film Institute
The real indies: A close look at orphan films

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 22/10/2014 - 12:44

The preservation of small, experimental and avant garde films is as urgent as the restoration of commercial cinema classics. These eight personal and imaginative works showcase the creative ways that artists can change the way we see the world around us.

Special guests include filmmakers Frank and Caroline Mouris, Jeanne Liotta, Bill Morrison, and Lisa Crafts; and archivists/preservationists Pamela Vizner (BB Optics), Heather Linville (Academy Film Archive), Andrew Lampert (Anthology Film Archive), and John Klacsmann (Anthology Film Archive); and violinist Todd Reynolds.

Dates:
Saturday, November 1, 2014 - 14:00 to Sunday, November 2, 2014 - 12:55
Venue:
The Academy Theater - New York, Estados Unidos
The Bill Morrison Collection
This five-disc set comprises 15 works by filmmaker and multimedia artist Bill Morrison, called "one of the most adventurous American filmmakers" by Variety. Morrison's work is characterized by his sensitive approach to found, often decaying film footage, and his close collaboration with contemporary conmposers, including Vijay Iyer, Johann Johannsson and Bill Frisell. Among other shorts and features, this set includes his acclaimed DECASIA (2002), "the most widely acclaimed American avant-garde film of the fin-de-siecle." (J. Hoberman, The Village Voice).

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Average: 4 (1 vote)
Category:
Blu-Ray
Publisher:
Icarus Films
Bill Morrison - 8 Films
Morrison’s shorts are violently beautiful morsels, full of ghostly imagery that’s subjected to solarizing, optical printing and other textural manipulations until they resemble the fluid pictures on the insides of eyelids, but writ large and poetical.

Rating:

Average: 2.8 (5 votes)

Price:
27.00 EUR
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VHS
Close-Up: Air Cries "Empty Water" + Decasia

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 24/11/2011 - 01:07
Close-Up: Air Cries "Empty Water" + Decasia
Tuesday December 6th & 13th, 20h
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club
42-44 Pollard Row London E2 6NB

Close-Up presents three films which use decaying and intensively altered footage to haunting effect, Carl E.Brown's Air Cries "Empty water" and Bill Morrison's Decasia. Using archival, found and original footage, each film produces an uncanny feeling that echoes dreamlike moods and textures, not only through the images depicted but also by the transformation of their vehicle: the surface of the film itself.
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Events
TRIBUTES - Pulse
TRIBUTES-Pulse is a collaboration between American filmmaker Bill Morrison (b. 1965) and Danish composer and percussionist Simon Christensen (b. 1971).

Christensen originally conceived of the project as a tribute to four American composers, Charles Ives, Conlon Nancarrow, Steve Reich and Trent Reznor. The project is comprised of four movements, with the themes of Shifting (slightest change), Multiple (simultaneously different), Across (different directions) and Beat (moving synchronized) respectively corresponding to each composer.

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Blu-Ray
Publisher:
Dacapo
Cinemad: 2009 Short Film Almanac

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 13/05/2009 - 02:53
To celebrate 10 years of covering unusual films and filmmakers, Cinemad magazine presents a compilation of short films that defy simple categorization. An accompanying 60 page booklet includes interviews with each filmmaker. Produced by Mike Plante and Andrea Grover.

- Edge-TV with Animal Charm (Animal Charm, 2008, 3 min)
- above below (Cam Archer, 2008, 4 min)
- letters (Stephanie Barber, 2000, 4 min)
- Valse Triste (Bruce Conner, 1978, 5 min)
- Pictures from Dorothy (Kevin Jerome Everson, 2003, 6 min)
- The Sun (James Fotopoulos, 2000, 3 min)
- lot 63, grave c (Sam Green, 2006, 10 minutes)
- War (trailer) (Jake Mahaffy, 2004, 84 minutes (excerpt))
- Wellness (trailer) (Jake Mahaffy, 2007, 90 minutes (excerpt))
- Motion Studies #3: Gravity (Jake Mahaffy, 2004, 3 minutes)
- Light is Calling (Bill Morrison, 2004, 8 minutes)
- Viscera (Leighton Pierce, 2004-2005, 11 minutes)
- The Time We Killed (Jennifer Reeves, 2004, 6:20 minutes)
- How Among the Frozen Words (Deborah Stratman, 2005, 44 seconds)
- It Will Die Out in the Mind (Deborah Stratman, 2006, 3:50 minutes)
- The Magician’s House (Deborah Stratman, 2007, 5:45 minutes)

DVD NTSC, Region free, 77 minutes, 24,95 USD. Available through Aurora Picture Show or Microcinema.
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