SHORT FILMS

Back to the Soil
(18 min, 2014, HD)

A revision of “Back to Soil” (1927)
by James H. Becker
Revision directed by Bill Morrison (2014)
Cinematography by James H. Becker
Edited by James H. Becker (1927)
and Bill Morrison (2014)
Music by David Lang


Beyond Zero: 1914-1918
(40 min, 2014, HD)

Film by Bill Morrison
Music by Aleksandra Vrebalov
Performed by the Kronos Quartet
Produced by Janet Cowperthwaite

Re:Awakenings
(18 min, 2013, HD)

A film by Bill Morrison
Produced by Lawrence Weschler
Music selected by Philip Glass
Performed by Andrew Sterman

All Vows
(10 min, 2013, HD)

Film by Bill Morrison
Music by Michael Gordon
Performed by Maya Beiser

Co-commissioned by Indiana University Cinema and the Dorit and Gerald Paul Program in Jewish Culture and the Arts of the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Program in Jewish Studies at Indiana.

Just Ancient Loops
(26 min, 2012, HD)

Directed by Bill Morrison
Music by Michael Harrison
Cellos performed by Maya Beiser
Produced by Bill Morrison, Hypnotic Pictures
Produced by Steve Acunto, Capolavori Productions

Release
(13 min, 2010, HD)

Sound design by Vijay Iyer
Produced by Julie Courtney

Golden Gate Award:
San Francisco Intl Film Fest

Who By Water
(18 min, 2007, DV)

Music by Michael Gordon

Grand Prix: Rio de Janeiro Int'l Short FIlm Festival

The Highwater Trilogy
(31 min, 2006, 35mm)

Film by Bill Morrison
Music by David Lang and Michael Gordon
Libretto by Deborah Artman

Porch
(9 min, 2007, DV)

Film by Bill Morrison
Music by Julia Wolfe
Libretto by Deborah Artman

Outerborough
(9 min, 2005, HD)

A film by Bill Morrison
Original music by Todd Reynolds
Commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Light Is Calling
(8 min, 2004, 35mm)

Music by Michael Gordon

Best Film: Berlin Interfilm
Grand Prix: Etrange Festival

The Mesmerist
(16 min, 2003, 35mm)

Music by Bill Frisell

Ghost Trip
(23 min, 2000, 35mm)

Featuring Slink Moss
Sound by Michael Montes

Dialogue list

00:02, Cemetery:
He rose, He rose, He rose up from the Dead
And the Lord shall bear my spirit home.

06:27, Casino:
Dealer: Eighteen.
Player 3: Eight…
Player 1: No!
Player 2: I guess not.
Dealer: Help him, help him! There you go... Oh my word!
Dealer: Tell him what the book says.
Player 1: Seven – take a card!
Player 3: Alright.
Player 1: Now you got seventeen.
Dealer: There you go!
Player 3: Yeah!
Player 1: The books says you should take a card…
Player 3: I know.
Player 1: … but you do what you want to do. I would say take a card.
Dealer: But you do what you want to do.
Player 1: But do whatever you want to do.
Player 4: Would you tell him what to do?
Player 4: (points at Player 3’s hand) Blackjack!
Dealer: Uh-oh! You were doomed on that hand!
Player 1: Look at that!
Player 3: So hot!

11:21, Preacher:
I said is somebody dead?
And he came in, and then he called the doctor.
From Rolling Fork. From Mayersville.
Darned decay! This woman been dead, for five or six days!
But she got this boy, down beside the bed, someway or another
and she went on to Glory!
Don't know how he lived five or six days without any food or water,
but I know a man that do, yes sir, I do.
I know a man, oh yes, now,
can speak to the wind and the wind obeys. Yes sir!
I know a man, yes sir,
That will make you walk right when you don’t want to walk right
Bless the home now, when you don’t want a home to bless.
Oh my lord! Glory hallelujah.
You got to learn what it means to serve God.

17:55, Cemetery
(Sung)
And he never said a mumbling word, not a word, not a word, not a word.
Oh they crucified my Lord!
And he never said a mumbling word, not a word, not a word, not a word.
Oh they nailed him to the tree, to the tree, to the tree.
Oh they nailed him to the tree!
And he never said a mumbling word, not a word, not a word, not a word.
Oh the sun refused to shine, refused to shine, refused to shine, refused to shine.
Oh the sun refused to shine!
And he never said a mumbling word, not a word, not a word, not a word.
(Spoken)
They’re better off
And that’s my prospective grave with the cross, as you can see.
And he’s better off, and so is she, or whoever’s in there.
They’re all at rest. Whoo!
(off camera) Because I am going through something…

The Film of Her
(12 min, 1996, 35mm)

Music by Henryk Gorecki
Music by Bill Frisell