3 Movies Directed by Bill Morrison

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Black and white stock footage, much of it scratched or blistered, illustrates a Michael Gordon symphony. A whirling dervish, couples laughing, a soldier trying to take advantage of a flower vendor, a camel caravan moving across the horizon, a single plane and then others, paratroopers in the sky, a mining disaster, a pugilist, nuns and children at a school - some images last a few seconds, others for a minute or more. The scratches, blisters, and bygone look of the footage suggest time's passage. Only the dervish, who begins and ends the film, is intact.

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A scene from The Bells (1926) is optically reprinted and edited to Michael Gordonès 7 minute composition. A meditation on the fleeting nature of life and love, as seen through the roiling emulsion of an film.

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A re-imagining of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein', using images culled from archives around the world.