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.