The Films of Bill Morrison

The Films of Bill Morrison

Aesthetics of the Archive

  • Auteur: Herzogenrath, Bernd
  • Éditeur: Amsterdam University Press
  • Collection: Framing Film
  • ISBN: 9789089649966
  • eISBN Pdf: 9789048529094
  • Lieu de publication:  Amsterdam , Netherlands
  • Année de publication électronique: 2017
  • Mois : Novembre
  • Pages: 228
  • Langue: Anglais
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.
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Aesthetics of the Archive – Bernd Herzogenrath
  • 1. Drafts and Fragments – André Habib
  • 2. The Film of Her – Dan Streible
  • 3. Ghost Trip – Benjamin Léon
  • 4. Decasia – Bernd Herzogenrath
  • 5. The Mesmerist – Hans Morgenstern
  • 6. Light is Calling – Hanjo Berressem
  • 7. Gotham – David Gersten
  • 8. Outerborough – Jan-Christopher Horak
  • 9. The Highwater Trilogy – Yasmin Afshar
  • 10. Porch – William Cusick
  • 11. The Future Lasts Long – Agnès Villete
  • 12. Who by Water – Andrea Pierron
  • 13. Every Stop on the F-Train – Benjamin Betka
  • 14. Spark of Being – Bérénice Reynaud
  • 15. The Miners’ Hymns – Simon Popple
  • 16. Tributes – Pulse: A Requiem for the 20th Century – Johannes Binotto
  • 17. Just Ancient Loops – Eva Hoffmann
  • 18. The Great Flood – Sukhdev Sandhu
  • 19. Re-Awakenings – Lawrence Weschler
  • Index of Film Titles
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects

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