Bill Morrison Movies

A home-movie portrait of an ordinary American family, taken over many years and framed in the porch of their house.

Using newly discovered fragments of a French film, Morrison reconstructs the film.

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...

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

A short film made during lockdown.

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

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...

Buried and Breaking Away demonstrates the effect of Bloomington, Indiana’s elements on one of its favorite cinematic progenies.

On March 17, 1930, a crowd assembled outside Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary in hopes of witnessing Al Capone's release from prison....

An adventure from the point of view of a fly.

An experimental film by Bill Morrison.