Bill Morrison: Selected Films 1996-2014

A three-disc Blu-ray set of films by innovative New York-based filmmaker Bill Morrison. 

Selected Films 1996 — 2014 includes 2002’s Decasia, which was released in cinemas in the UK to much acclaim. Morrison’s exquisite and timeless films are scored by the cream of the US avant-garde classical and jazz scenes, including Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, Dave Douglas, and Bill Frisell.

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 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.

Disc One

  • The Film of Her (1996, 12 mins)
  • City Walk (1999, 6 mins)
  • Ghost Trip (2000, 23 mins)
  • Decasia (2002, 67 mins)
  • The Mesmerist (2003, 16 mins)
  • Light Is Calling (2004, 8 mins)
  • Outerborough (2005, 9 mins)
  • Porch (2006, 9 mins)

Disc Two

  • Highwater Trilogy (2006, 31 mins)
  • Who By Water (2007, 18 mins)
  • Spark of Being (2010, 67 mins)
  • Release (2010, 13 mins)
  • Just Ancient Loops (2012, 26 mins)

Disc Three

  • Re: Awakenings (2013, 18 mins)
  • The Great Flood (2013, 78 mins)
  • Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 (2014, 41 mins)
  • Back to the Soil (2014, 18 mins)

Special features

  • Presented in High Definition
  • Bill Morrison: The Film Archaeologist (2013, 9 mins)
  • Extensive illustrated booklet featuring essays by Lawrence Wechsler, Alex Ross, Gareth Evans, Geoffrey Himes, Sukhdev Sandhu, Steve Dollar and Matt Levine

Product information

    • Certificate

      Exempt

    • Colour

      Colour and Black/white

    • Sound

      Sound

    • Running time

      460mins

    • Original aspect ratio

      Mixed

    • DVD region

      • 2 Europe (except Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus), Middle East, Egypt, Japan, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Greenland, French Overseas departments and territories

    • Blu-ray region

      • B - Includes most European and Middle-Eastern countries, all of Africa, Australia and New Zealand

    • Catalogue number

      BFIB1204

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