Repurposed Footage Movies

  • 2021
    let me come in

    let me come in

    let me come in

    6.52021HD

    Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Pawns of Passion (1928).

    let me come in
  • 2013
    Rite of Spring

    Rite of Spring

    Rite of Spring

    02013HD

    Black-and-white film projections by Bill Morrison, using archival footage of frigid Arctic scenes.

    Rite of Spring
  • 1970
    It's the Bigness of the Office...

    It's the Bigness of the Office...

    It's the Bigness of the Office...

    01970HD

    A giant CEO visits the tiny man in the Oval Office, and sheds tears – not, as Trump says, because of the grandeur of the place, but because...

    It's the Bigness of the Office...
  • 2013
    Bill Morrison: The Film Archaeologist

    Bill Morrison: The Film Archaeologist

    Bill Morrison: The Film Archaeologist

    02013HD

    Things fall apart, but they are also reassembled and given new life, in an enlightened form. Meet the New York based artist and filmmaker Bill...

    Bill Morrison: The Film Archaeologist
  • 1938
    Jack's Dream

    Jack's Dream

    Jack's Dream

    6.21938HD

    A lucid dream turned nightmarish reality. A ship sinking into a world of fear. A short film that’s mostly puppetry by one of America's...

    Jack's Dream
  • 2004
    Analepsis

    Analepsis

    Analepsis

    02004HD

    The video Analepsis, 2003-04, is composed of a series of excerpts taken from satellite television news reports. The individual 1-4 second clips are...

    Analepsis
  • 2018
    The Letter

    The Letter

    The Letter

    02018HD

    Using the discarded, deteriorating remnants from seven silent film titles, filmmaker Bill Morrison braids a story of intertwining love triangles that...

    The Letter
  • 2016
    Little Orphant Annie

    Little Orphant Annie

    Little Orphant Annie

    02016HD

    Little Orphant Annie is a re-edit of a silent film of the same title from 1918, directed by Colin Campbell. Two reels from an original nitrate print...

    Little Orphant Annie