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...

은 최초 공개되는 마이클 잭슨의 생전, 그를 가장 가까이에서 지켜보았던 이들의 인터뷰로 구성된 다큐멘터리로 그가 잭슨 파이브로 활동했을 때부터 세계적인 솔로 스타로 성장하기까지, 그리고 2009년 6월 그의 갑작스러운 사망에 이르기까지의 스토리를 공개한다. 앤드류 이스텔이 감독을 맡고 마이클 잭슨의 어릴 적부터 가까운 친구였던 데이비드 게스트가 제작을 맡은 에서는 마이클 잭슨의 어머니인 캐서린 잭슨이 고인의 죽음 이후 처음 허락한 인터뷰를 수록, 그녀의 입장에서 본 마이클 잭슨의 출생과 성장 이야기, 아버지 조와의 관계에 대한 이야기를 들려주고, 아들이 재판소에서 문제가 있었을 때 그를 지지했던 내용, 그리고 그 후의 인생에 대한 그녀의 생각과 이야기들을 들려준다. 마이클의 큰 누나 레비 잭슨과 형 티토의 인터뷰를 통해 잭슨가의 역사를 상세히 들어보고 그의 어린 시절과 어머니 캐서린과의 친밀한 관계, 2005년에 세상이 놀랐던 아동 성추행사건 재판기간에는 무슨 일이 있었는지 들려준다. 이 밖에도 데비 로우, 리사 마리 프레슬리와의 결혼 생활, 펩시 광고 촬영 중 발생한 화상사고, 성형수술, 진통제에 의존했던 마이클의 상황 등 그간 다루기 힘들었던 그의 루머와 불운했던 삶에 대한 이야기를 가감 없이 공개한다.

잭애스의 악동들이 집에서 절대 따라 해서는 안 되는 엄청난, 그리고 바보 같은 스턴트들 가지고 이번에 완전히 새로운 무삭제 버전으로 다시 나타났다. 왜냐구? 너무 많은 걸로도 충분하지가 않으니까! 스티브 오의 악어거북과의 초근접 만남, 크리스 폰티우스의 딱따구리, 프레스턴 레이시의 인간 볼링 공, 그리고 스턴 건 림보까지 당신이 가장 좋아하는 잭애스 멤버들의 짖궂은 장난, 바보 같은 짓, 아수라장의 총집합을 놓치지 마라. 게다가 잭애스 촬영팀과 함께 무대 뒤로 가서 세트장의 편집증 환자같은 일상도 들여다보고, 계획대로 전개되지는 않았지만 나름대로 우스꽝스러운 일을 만든 아이디어들의 모음, 그리고 드디어 조니 녹스빌에게 성공시킨 무대 뒤 장난까지 모두 즐길 수 있다.

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.

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