Bill Morrison
Footprints
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Add rightsFormat Blu-ray Interzone
Original format 35mm, 16mm, Super8
Year 1992-2021
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Bill Morrison
Author(s) Anne-Violaine Houcke, Laura Staab, Steve Dollar
Subtitles French
Booklet 44 pages (French, English)
Running time 139 min
Films
FOOTPRINTS (1992) 6'
THE FILM OF HER (1996) 12'
GHOST TRIP (2000) 23'
THE HIGHWATER TRILOGY (2006) 31'
PORCH (2007) 9'
WHO BY WATER (2007) 18'
RELEASE (2010) 13'
JUST ANCIENT LOOPS (2012) 26'
RE:AWAKENINGS (2013) 18'
BEYOND ZERO: 1914-1918 (2014) 40'
THE DOCKWORKER'S DREAM (2015) 17'
THE LETTER (2018) 13'
WILD GIRL (2021) 6'
LET ME COME IN (2021) 11'
HER VIOLET KISS (2021) 5'
Description
"Morrison liberates a primordial film from its destiny as matter doomed to decomposition and darkness: in his hands, film is transformed to become an experience once again. Although he hardly seeks to restore images to give them the sheen of newness, Morrison does restore them, in their different states of deterioration, to return them to movement and to people. And that's where part of the magic of his cinema lies: the timeless magic of moving images on a screen and before a spectator."
— Laura Staab
"A film like Beyond Zero: 1914-1918, composed mainly of documentary archival images from World War I, presented without captions or commentary, without any desire to act as a historian, confronts the viewer with a harrowing sensory experience of the conflict. The monstrous dramaturgy we witness stems from the very nature of the photo-filmic image, indexical and material: the bodies of soldiers, the wounded, nurses become deformed, agitated by deteriorations that seem like bomb showers, punctured with holes, disappearing into the decomposing matter of celluloid. It is, literally, their last trace left in this world, imprinted in the celluloid, that disappears before us."
— Anne-Violaine Houcke