The Films Of Bill Morrison

Download or read book The Films of Bill Morrison written by Bernd Herzogenrath and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.