This is the first book-length study of Avant-garde filmmaker Bill Morrison's work, covering the whole of his career.
Avant-garde filmmaker Bill Morrison has been making films that combine archival footage and contemporary music for decades, and he has recently begun to receive substantial recognition: he was the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, and his 2002 film Decasia was selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. This is the first book-length study of Morrison's work, covering the whole of his career. It gathers specialists throughout film studies to explore Morrison's aesthetics of the archive-his creative play with archival footage and his focus on the materiality of the medium of film.
1. Drafts and Fragments,
2. The Film of Her: The Cine-Poet Laureate of
Orphan Films(pp. 51-68)
CHAPTER 2 The Film of Her,
3. Ghost Trip,
4. Decasia,
5. The Mesmerist,
6.
Light is Calling: Celluloid Dreams,
7. Gotham: Zoetrope,
8. Outerborough,
9.
The Highwater Trilogy,
10. Porch,
11. The Future Lasts Long,
12. Who by Water
Variations on Matter,
13. Every Stop on the F-Train,
14. Spark of Being,
15.
The Miners Hymns,
16. Tributes,
17. Just Ancient Loops,
18. The Great Flood,
19. Re-Awakenings: Bill Morrison in Conversation
Bernd Herzogenrath is professor of American Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main. Publications include: The Films of Bill Morrison (AUP 2017), Practical Aesthetics (Bloomsbury 2020), and Concepts (Bloomsbury 2022). He is (with Patricia Pisters) the main-editor of the series thinking
