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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