DECASIA (2002), THE MINERS’ HYMNS (2011), THE GREAT FLOOD (2013), DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME (2016), THE VILLAGE DETECTIVE: A SONG CYCLE (2021), INCIDENT (2023)
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Bill Morrison retweeted
Jun 16
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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Bill Morrison retweeted
Across The Margin : The Podcast presents an interview with documentary filmmaker Bill Morrison, the poet laureate of lost films. #TheGreatFlood #BillFrissell @decasia @osirispod
Apple:podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Spotify:open.spotify.com/episode/4NX…
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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 retweeted
30 Sep 2025
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...:
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3 Oct 2025
Screening Sat 10/4 at 2:30pm at @nyuniversity Immersion Room, 70 Washington Sq South, 7th floor. DM for more info
15 Mar 2025
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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Bill Morrison retweeted
30 Sep 2025
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…
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Bill Morrison retweeted
12 Apr 2025
DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME should be on any top lists of 21st century cinema. just a perfect film about the medium, its history, its present, its tragedy, and its possibilities. Morrison makes it look so easy too, but this is absolutely a high-wire work of art.
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Bill Morrison retweeted
30 Sep 2025
See the essential documentary DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME tomorrow (Tuesday) Q&A with director Bill Morrison! ifccenter.com/films/dawson-c…
12 Apr 2025
DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME should be on any top lists of 21st century cinema. just a perfect film about the medium, its history, its present, its tragedy, and its possibilities. Morrison makes it look so easy too, but this is absolutely a high-wire work of art.
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Bill Morrison retweeted
16 Aug 2025
Dawson City: Frozen Time with Bill Morrison (Director) 🎟️
Dawson City: Frozen Time
Tuesday, September 30
IFC Center
In Person: Bill Morrison (Director)
@IFCCenter
filmspotlight.org/event/1989
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"I love 'Dawson City: Frozen Time' so much. I was completely blindsided by that movie; it’s so beautiful." - Alex Winter on Bill Morrison's 2016 documentary, which is now streaming free on Tubi. Read our full interview with Winter here: buff.ly/f37ji7O
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Bill Morrison retweeted
15 Aug 2025
Ari Aster's 'Eddington' on digital, @decasia's 'Dawson City: Frozen Time' on Tubi, and more streaming picks of the week: thefilmstage.com/new-to-stre…
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Bill Morrison retweeted
23 Jul 2025
Ela Bittencourt (@Ela_Bittencourt) reports from this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which featured new films by Maciej Drygas, Paula Ďurinová, Bill Morrison, and more.
Now online from The Film Comment Letter: filmcomment.com/blog/karlovy…
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Bill Morrison retweeted
12 Jun 2025
#Darker è un’esperienza quasi filosofica, che interroga il nostro modo di relazionarci con il tempo, con la memoria e con l’inevitabile decadenza di tutte le cose.
Rossella Catanese sull'opera di Bill Morrison e David Lang (UnArchive Fest) | fatamorganaweb.it/darker-di-…
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Bill Morrison retweeted
18 Jun 2025
Tomorrow at the Nevill Holt Festival we will perform a special arrangement of The Sinking of The Titanic, with expanded orchestration and the striking film projections of Bill Morrison and Laurie Olinder. Some tickets still available: nevillholtfestival.com/event…
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Bill Morrison retweeted
21 May 2025
📢 Prima internazionale!
🎬 darker di David Lang e Bill Morrison
🎻 Cine-concerto live con PMCE Ensemble
🗓️ 31 maggio – ore 21
📍 Auditorium Parco della Musica, Roma
🎟️ Biglietti: bit.ly/PMCE-darker
Un’esperienza immersiva tra suono e immagini d’archivio.
#UnArchiveFest
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19 May 2025
CHICAGO - INCIDENT screening
Wednesday 21 May at 7:00pm at The @DuSableMuseum Black History Museum and Education Center
do312.com/events/2025/5/21/c…
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