1st Edition
The Films of Bill Morrison Aesthetics of the Archive
Edited By Bernd Herzogenrath
Copyright 2018
298 Pages
by
Routledge
298 Pages
by
Routledge
298 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Drafts and Fragments, 2. The Film of Her: The Cine-Poet Laureate of Orphan Films(pp. 51-68)
CHAPTER 2 The Film of Her, 3. Ghost Trip, 4. Decasia, 5. The Mesmerist, 6. Light is Calling: Celluloid Dreams, 7. Gotham: Zoetrope, 8. Outerborough, 9. The Highwater Trilogy, 10. Porch, 11. The Future Lasts Long, 12. Who by Water Variations on Matter, 13. Every Stop on the F-Train, 14. Spark of Being, 15. The Miners’ Hymns, 16. Tributes, 17. Just Ancient Loops, 18. The Great Flood, 19. Re-Awakenings: Bill Morrison in Conversation
Biography
Bernd Herzogenrath is professor of American Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main. Publications include: The Films of Bill Morrison (AUP 2017), Practical Aesthetics (Bloomsbury 2020), and Concepts (Bloomsbury 2022). He is (with Patricia Pisters) the main-editor of the series thinking
