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Bill Morrison, Film & Video

Award-winning filmmaker Bill Morrison has eight titles in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, including Light Is Calling, Decasia and The Film of Her. His work has been screened at The Tate Modern, Lincoln Center, The Whitney Museum, London’s ICA, MassMOCA, The Wexner Center, BAM, The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum among many other venues. His films have been broadcast on PBS, The Sundance Channel, and Arté, and have been featured at international film festivals worldwide, such as Sundance, Rotterdam, San Francisco and Edinburgh. His projected set work with the acclaimed performance ensemble Ridge Theater has been recognized with two Bessie awards for excellence in theatrical design  (1993, 2003) and a Village Voice Obie for collaborative design (2001). Since 2000, Bill has received grants from The Guggenheim Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, NEA, NYSCA, NYFA and Creative Capital. Decasia was named one of the ten best films of 2003 (#3) by J. Hoberman of the Village Voice, and was recently released on DVD by Plexifilm.

Bill Morrison uses deteriorating archival footage to inspire the viewer to reflect upon his or her own fate, as those of the people captured by the film have already been sealed.