DECASIA (2002), THE MINERS’ HYMNS (2011), THE GREAT FLOOD (2013), DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME (2016), THE VILLAGE DETECTIVE: A SONG CYCLE (2021), INCIDENT (2023)
New York, NY
Joined March 2009
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Lexicon of Experimental Film: B is for Bill Morrison
Cinema's foremost archaeologist of decay, turning decomposing nitrate footage into haunting elegies on time, memory, and material fragility, as illustrated by Just Ancient Loops (2012).
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The highlight of my #Archival_Assembly_#4 so far is meeting and introducing myself to Bill Morrison this morning after being blown away by his films, INCIDENT (2023) SAWYER AVENUE, SUNDAY AFTERNOON (2026). – at Berlin, Germany
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Don't miss a special program featuring 2 powerful short docs chronicling brutal ICE forces in Chicago & Minneapolis, and the bravery of the local response against them.
Screening Sat. Oct. 24, with filmmakers Bill Morrison & Annie Sundberg in Q&A:
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Así es como trabaja la Gestapo de Trump...
Otra obra más que pertinente del genial Bill Morrison
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Great film - called “Sawyer Avenue, Sunday afternoon” -from cell phones and ICE agents body cams about the arrest of an undocumented man at Sawyer and Wilson last October and the neighbors who rose up and attempted to stop it. Well done - a must see! newyorker.com/culture/the-ne…
My new film Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon (18’, 2026) may be viewed via @NewYorker
In the documentary short “Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon,” body-cam and bystander footage examine a confrontation between residents and federal agents. newyorker.com/culture/the-ne…
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In the documentary short “Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon,” body-cam and bystander footage examine a confrontation between residents and federal agents. newyorker.com/culture/the-ne…
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In October of 2025, during the Trump Administration’s immigration crackdown in Chicago, dubbed Operation Midway Blitz, a young Latino man is chased and seized by masked Border Patrol agents, most of whom are young Latino men themselves. Neighbors emerge from their homes and pepper the agents with questions, then with invectives, and tensions quickly escalate. Bill Morrison’s short documentary “Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon” offers an inside view of this arrest, using videos shared by witnesses in the neighborhood as well as footage from the body cameras worn by the agents. Watch the film, presented with @invinst, here: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/1t…
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The camaraderie between fellow #WhiteSox fans at home & away is a beautiful thing. Leaving the intimidating Yankee Stadium avoiding the sweep, & seeing those NY fans look defeated was priceless. Let's Go White Sox!
#WhiteSoxVsYankees #SoxWin #SoxChic #SoxChicExperience
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Continuing our coverage of the Nitrate Picture Show, Robert Stinner brings a review of Bill Morrison's newest film "darker", which continues his preoccupation with decaying film and their decaying images. Another pleasure to edit this. Read here: inreviewonline.substack.com/…
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Across The Margin : The Podcast presents an interview with documentary filmmaker Bill Morrison, the poet laureate of lost films. #TheGreatFlood #BillFrissell @decasia @osirispod
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This is such sad news. @decasia
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“I love 'Decasia.' I love Bill Morrison. One of my favorite filmmakers. Just kind of magic, what he does. I love 'Dawson City: Frozen Time' so much." - Alex Winter
Read more about Winter's favorite docs here: buff.ly/3CxbXcw
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'Decasia' and 'Dawson City: Frozen Time' filmmaker Bill Morrison celebrates his birthday today.
Read about how he breathes new life into a decaying silent film with his short ‘let me come in’: buff.ly/3Z9Jwdm
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Bill Morrison's documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time is a great detective story on many levels and in many domains, regarding the survival of films and what they show (as Chris Marker said, you never know what you're filming); at @IFCCenter at 6:55pm +Q.&A. w/Morrison...:
Screening Sat 10/4 at 2:30pm at @nyuniversity Immersion Room, 70 Washington Sq South, 7th floor. DM for more info
Jazz people, do not miss Bill Morrison's short film The Vanguard Tapes, in First Look at @MovingImageNYC tonight at 8; it's a trove of wit and wisdom, anecdote and analysis, that will stay in mind long after talking-heads talking-over-music documentaries are forgotten.
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TONIGHT! 🎞️See DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME + Q&A with dir Bill Morrison (@decasia)! The bizarre history of a collection of 500 films from the 1910s and 20s, lost until they were unearthed from a subarctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon Territory in 1978. ifccenter.com/films/dawson-c…
