Bill Morrison

Biography

Bill Morrison is an award-winning artist and filmmaker. His films and videos have been screened in theatres, museums and concert halls worldwide. Often working in collaboration with musicians and composers, he has created films to accompany live performances of music by John Adams, Steve Reich, Michael Gordon and others.

Directed

1. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017) — Director
2. Incident (2023) — Director
3. Decasia: The State of Decay (2002) — Director
4. Light Is Calling (2004) — Director
5. The Great Flood (2012) — Director
6. The Film of Her (1996) — Director
7. Ghost Trip (2000) — Director
8. Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 (2014) — Director
9. Re: Awakenings (2013) — Director
10. The Highwater Trilogy (2006) — Director
11. Release (2010) — Director
12. let me come in (2021) — Director
13. Spark of Being (2010) — Director
14. Outerborough (2005) — Director
15. City Walk (1999) — Director
16. Porch (2006) — Director
17. Just Ancient Loops (2012) — Director
18. The Mesmerist (2003) — Director
19. Who by Water (2007) — Director
20. Back to the Soil (2014) — Director
21. Photo Op (1992) — Director
22. The Village Detective: A Song Cycle (2021) — Director
23. The Miners' Hymns (2012) — Director
24. Night Highway (1990) — Director
25. Footprints (1992) — Director
26. Wild Girl (2021) — Director
27. Trinity (2002) — Director
28. Nemo (1995) — Director
29. Lost Avenues (1991) — Director
30. East River (2003) — Director
31. The Dockworker's Dream (2016) — Director
32. The Death Train (1993) — Director
33. The Ring (2021) — Director
34. Curly Takes a Bath by the Sea (2020) — Director
35. All Vows (2013) — Director
36. Buried News (2021) — Director
37. Tributes: Pulse (2011) — Director
38. The Film That Buys the Cinema (2014) — Director
39. Curly’s Thanksgiving (2020) — Director
40. Koller and Freud (2012) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017) — Himself
2. Mutual Appreciation (2005) — Walter
3. Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011) — Himself (archive footage)
4. The Film of Her (1996) — The Curator
5. Cinema of Decay: The Films of Bill Morrison (2017)
6. Peoples House (2007) — Walter
7. Bill Morrison: The Film Archaeologist (2013) — Himself
8. Silents, Please! A Love Letter to the Silent Era (2020) — Himself
9. Pop Meets the Void (2015) — Walter's Brother