01/10/2009

BILL MORRISON 8 FILMS



BILL MORRISON
8 FILMS
(VHS PAL & SECAM) OUT OF PRINT

Lost Avenues, 1991 color 6’ - music by Zoar
Footprints, 1992 b/w & color 6’ - music by Jim Farmer
Photo Op, 1992 b/w 5’ - opera by Conrad Cummings and James Sienna
The World is Round, 1994 b/w 5’ - music by Jim Farmer
Nemo, 1995 b/w 5’ - music by Zoar
The Film of Her, 1996 b/w 12’ - music by Bill Frisell and Henryk Gørecki

Morrison’s shorts are violently beautiful morsels, full of ghostly imagery that’s subjected to solarizing, optical printing and other textural manipulations until they resemble the fluid pictures on the insides of eyelids, but writ large and poetical. Whales, trains, movie projectors and the lines on highways are thus transformed into stunning, hypnotic ruminations on history and memory, fate and human intervention.” – Los Angeles Weekly, April 2, 1998.
“An impressionistic fusion of film history and poetic vision. Bill Morrison achieves a lyrical examination of the process of perception and the development of motion pictures. Alternately humourous and edgy, Morrison’s rhythmic editing gives the film a visual pulse, like a heartbeat.”
– Jan-Christopher Horak on Footprints.
Bill Morrison’s prize-winning films have been widely acclaimed around the world and acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1995-6 he received a year-long fellowship to work at Fabbrica, an Italian image studio under the direction of the Benetton group, where he produced The Film of Her.

« Les courts-métrages de Morrison sont de beaux morceaux violents, pleins d’images fantomatiques soumises à la solarisation, à la tireuse optique, et à d'autres manipulations de texture jusqu'à ce qu'elles ressemblent aux images fluides à l’intérieur des paupières, mais écrites en grand et de façon poétique. Des baleines, des trains, des projecteurs de film et des lignes d’autoroutes sont ainsi transformés en d’étourdissantes et hypnotiques méditations sur l'histoire et la mémoire, le destin et l’intervention humaine. »
– Los Angeles Weekly, le 2 avril 1998.



OUT OF PRINT