Cinema of Decay: The Films of Bill Morrison (2017)

A short film where circus performers entertain children.

A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.

A lucid dream turned nightmarish reality. A ship sinking into a world of fear. A short film that’s mostly puppetry by one of America's most prolific twentieth century artists.

Things fall apart, but they are also reassembled and given new life, in an enlightened form. Meet the New York based artist and filmmaker Bill Morrison in this interview about his haunting experimental collage films 'Decasia' and 'Light is Calling'.

Original Super 8 footage shot by Dr. Oliver Sacks of his patients at Beth Abraham Hospital, Bronx, NY, who were administered the drug L-Dopa in the summer of 1969 and “awakened” after decades of inactivity is featured in this cine-poem that combines archival footage with a score for solo saxophone composed by Philip Glass.

Using the discarded, deteriorating remnants from seven silent film titles, filmmaker Bill Morrison braids a story of intertwining love triangles that pivots between the accounts of two women.

This documentary focuses on the artistry of director Bill Morrison, who leverages decaying film stock from years past to tell new stories that are relevant to today's audiences. The decaying film lends brilliant visuals which add to Morrison's concept of storytelling.

The film The Unchanging Sea (2018) was inspired by the discovery of a decaying print of DW Griffith's The Unchanging Sea (1910) in the nitrate vaults of the Library of Congress. Taking this ancient title as its point of departure, a new narrative was re-assembled from a variety of similarly ancient films about going off to, and returning from, the Sea. The characters in these old films appear to be emerging from the roiling oceans of Time, having floated like messages in bottles for over one hundred years, and now having washed up on our shores to tell us their stories.

Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Pawns of Passion (1928).

Black-and-white film projections by Bill Morrison, using archival footage of frigid Arctic scenes.

Little Orphant Annie is a re-edit of a silent film of the same title from 1918, directed by Colin Campbell. Two reels from an original nitrate print were scanned and re-edited to make the new film, which follows the structure of the poem written by James Whitcomb Riley in 1885. Riley is heard reciting his poem in a recording made in 1912. The poem is also heard read by Kelli Shay Hix in 2016, who additionally wrote and performs the song, “The Swimmer.”

The Goal Is To Live is an infinitely-looping assemblage constructed out of repurposed content from the popular show How It’s Made, which chronicles the factories that create everyday objects. The film takes Dina Kelberman’s practice of accumulation and recontextualization into a large-scale time-based work for the first time. Reorganizing short clips into a long Rube-Goldberg-like narrative, and featuring a hypnotic minimalist soundtrack by Rod Hamilton and Tiffany Seal, the film portrays a mesmerizing and surreal process in which materials are transformed in myriad ways.

An ongoing exploration of the films of Rose Hobart and a re-duplication of Joseph Cornell's infamous found footage masterpiece

Journalist Fabian Burstein looks behind the curtains of the porn industry. Starting in Budapest he heads westwards to explore a new world on its victory march rooted deeply in Austria. On this journey he meets the heroes and leading actors of this story: Austrians Mick Blue, Renee Pornero and Thomas Janisch. Porno Unplugged follows its native porn stars to where their lives happen. From east to west...

"Michael Jackson: La vida de un Ídolo" muestra la vida del cantante detrás de las cámaras, desde su infancia con los Jackson 5, pasando por su consagración como solista a nivel mundial y recordando los momentos previos a su repentina muerte en 2009. Dirigido por Andrew Eastel y producido por un amigo íntimo de la infancia de Michael Jackson, David Gest, “Michael Jackson: la vida de un ídolo” supone para Katherine Jackson la primera oportunidad de ofrecer su versión de la historia sobre su hijo: su infancia en Gary, su ciudad natal; su apoyo durante los juicios a los que se enfrentó Michael; y cómo salieron adelante tras estos capítulos.

¡Porque todas las anteriores no bastan! Johnny Knoxville y sus chicos aparecen de vuelta en esta entrega de Jackass 3.5. Escenas nunca antes vistas. Una nueva película de los locos chicos de la MTV en donde realizarán pruebas cuya finalidad es infligirse dolor y hacer reir a mucha gente al mismo tiempo.

Documentary about the making of American Pie (1999), American Pie 2 (2001) and American Wedding (2003).

The making of Kevin Smith's film, Zack and Miri Make a Porno.

For a book project, photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders took photographs of 30 stars of adult movies, each pair of photographs in the same pose, clothed and nude. This film records the photo shoots and includes interviews with the performers and commentary from eight writers (and John Waters). The actors and writers discuss economics, nudity and exhibitionism, careers, and private lives.

Documental que recoge la vida de Bruce Lee, una de las mayores leyendas de las artes marciales. El especial cuenta con la participación de familiares, amigos y personalidades del cine y el deporte como Mickey Rourke o Kobe Bryant.