Bill Morrison (born November 17, 1965) is an American, New York –based filmmaker and artist. His films often combine rare archival material set to contemporary music, and have been screened in theaters, cinemas, museums, galleries, and concert halls around the world.
19-794: Bill Morrison or Billy Morrison is the name of: Bill Morrison (director) (born 1965), American filmmaker Bill Morrison (comics) (born 1959), co-founder of Bongo Comics Bill Morrison (politician) (1928–2013), Australian politician for the Division of St George Bill Morrison (trade unionist) (fl. from 1938), British trade union leader Billy Morrison (born 1969), British guitarist and singer Billy Morrison (footballer) , footballer for Fulham F.C. 1904–1908 See also [ edit ] Bill Mollison (1928–2016), Australian researcher, author, scientist, teacher, and biologist William Morrison (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
38-614: A 3-disc Blu-ray box set from the British Film Institute in May 2015. In 2023 Re-Voir Video released a 15-film blu-ray set of Morrison's work entitled "Footprints". Critics have commented on the historical dimensions of Morrison's works. Writing about Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) in The New York Review of Books , Deborah Eisenberg noted, "It’s chastening to witness the pliant material of history as it’s being made and at
57-547: A cast and crew of Harvard alumni. Though his films often appear improvised , they are for the most part scripted ; the dialogue is often noted for its drawn-out, awkward nature, and characters frequently evade key topics. Many of the films seem to start and end in medias res , giving the films a "slice of life" feeling that suggests a larger narrative or world that the audience is looking in on. The characters in Bujalski's films are mostly middle-class . The desire for stability
76-599: A collaboration with composer/guitarist Bill Frisell , received the Smithsonian Magazine's American Ingenuity Award for Historical Scholarship. In 2016 Morrison presented the world premiere of Dawson City: Frozen Time in the Orizzonti section of the 73rd Venice International Film Festival , and the North American premiere at the 54th New York Film Festival . In 2017, The film was released by Kino Lorber , and
95-681: A major role in both films. In 2006 he appeared as an actor and contributed to the screenplay of the Joe Swanberg film Hannah Takes the Stairs . Beeswax and Computer Chess , Bujalski's third and fourth films, were filmed in Austin, where the director lives. Beeswax was released in summer 2009. While making it Bujalski wrote a screenplay adaptation of Benjamin Kunkel 's 2005 novel Indecision for Paramount Pictures . His fourth feature, Computer Chess ,
114-589: A sometimes decidedly "lo-fi" feel (reinforced by Funny Ha Ha' s distorted mono sound ), and are often classified as mumblecore . The actors are non-professionals, many drawn from other media, including animator Kate Dollenmayer as the lead in Funny Ha Ha , musician Justin Rice as the lead in Mutual Appreciation and experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison in a supporting role in the same film. Funny Ha Ha featured
133-452: A writer on several studio projects, including, most recently, the live-action remake of Disney’s Lady and the Tramp . Bujalski's rough-edged, realistic films are often compared to the works of directors John Cassavetes , Maurice Pialat and Mike Leigh . All of his feature films were photographed by Austrian cinematographer Matthias Grunsky . The first three are shot on hand-held 16mm , have
152-488: Is a period film set at a computer programming tournament in 1980. It premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and won the Alfred Sloan Feature Film Prize. It is his first feature edited digitally and the only feature film shot almost exclusively with original Sony 1968 AVC-3260 B&W video cameras. Bujalski married Karen Olsson in 2009. They have two children. Bujalski also has worked as
171-725: Is a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation , and has received the Alpert Awards in the Arts , a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts , Creative Capital , and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2003). His theatrical projection design with Ridge Theater has been recognized with two Bessie Awards , and an Obie Award . Morrison has collaborated with some of
190-518: Is an American film director , screenwriter and actor , who has been called the "godfather of mumblecore ." Bujalski, born in Boston in 1977, is the son of artist-turned-businesswoman Sheila Dubman and businessman Edmund Bujalski. His father is Catholic and his mother is Jewish. He grew up in Newton, Massachusetts , where he attended the same high school as Beeswax collaborator Alex Karpovsky (although
209-636: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bill Morrison (director) Morrison was born in Chicago , Illinois . He attended Reed College from 1983 to 1985, and graduated with a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in 1989. He received the President's Citation from Cooper Union in 2016. Morrison had a mid-career retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art , October 2014 – March 2015. He
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#1732877030921228-597: The most influential composers and performers including John Adams , Gavin Bryars , Bill Frisell , Philip Glass , Michael Gordon , Henryk Górecki , Jóhann Jóhannsson , Kronos Quartet , David Lang , Steve Reich , Michael Harrison , Maya Beiser , Julia Wolfe and Michael Montes among many others. Morrison has occasionally acted in other directors' films, notably Andrew Bujalski 's Mutual Appreciation and its quasi-sequel Peoples House . Decasia (2002), his feature-length collaboration with composer Michael Gordon,
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266-571: The same time what that history has come to mean and what it has brought into being." And in the Los Angeles Review of Books , Seth Fein observed that The Village Detective: A Song Cycle (2021) "clarifies how time itself has been the evolving preoccupation of Morrison’s works and, consequently, their most significant contribution, not simply to the history of film but to the practice of history." Andrew Bujalski Andrew Bujalski ( / b ʊ ˈ dʒ æ l s k i / ; born April 29, 1977)
285-496: The two didn't know each other at the time). Bujalski studied film at Harvard 's Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, where the Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman was his thesis advisor . He shot his first feature, Funny Ha Ha , in 2002 and followed it with Mutual Appreciation in 2003. They received theatrical distribution in 2005 and 2006, respectively. Bujalski wrote both screenplays and appears as an actor, playing
304-588: Was named the Best Documentary of 2017 by the Boston Society of Film Critics , was awarded a Critics' Choice Award for Most Innovative Documentary, an International Documentary Association (IDA) Creative Recognition Award for Best Editing, and was included on over 100 critics lists of the best films of 2017 and was later listed as one of the best films of the decade (2010s) by Associated Press , Los Angeles Times , Vanity Fair , among others. In 2019 it
323-468: Was originally commissioned by the Basel Sinfonietta to be shown on three screens surrounding the audience, behind which 55 musicians performed Michael Gordon's score. In 2011, Spark of Being , a collaboration with composer/trumpeter Dave Douglas , won The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards . In 2014, The Great Flood ,
342-864: Was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK by Second Run DVD . In 2023, Morrison's film Incident (30', 2023) won the Best Short Documentary Award of 2023 from the International Documentary Association and the Best Short Film Award at the first edition of the UnArchive Found Footage Festival in Rome. Morrison's collected works through 2014 were released as a 5-disc box set from Icarus Films in September 2014, and
361-448: Was selected by the Library of Congress to its National Film Registry in 2013, becoming the first film of the 21st century selected to the list. It has been hailed by J. Hoberman as "the most widely praised American avant-garde film of the fin de siècle ." The director Errol Morris reportedly commented while viewing Decasia that "This may be the greatest movie ever made". The film
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