Movies: Hypnotic Pictures
- 2017
Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017)
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The true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s to 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until being discovered buried in a sub-arctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon Territory, in Dawson City, located about 350 miles south of...
- 2021
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle (2021)
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Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective (Деревенский детектив), a 1969 Soviet film—, caught in the nets of an Icelandic trawler, is the first step ...
- 2003
The Mesmerist (2003)
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Made by re-editing a deteriorated nitrate print of The Bells (1926), starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff, this work shows the fragility of the film image while foreshadowing the Holocaust....
- 2002
Decasia: The State of Decay (2002)
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A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score....
- 2021
Buried News (2021)
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Frequent Kronos collaborator Bill Morrison uses rare, early-20th century news footage to uncover ways that narratives about race have been used in the U.S. to divide people and maintain power....
- 2005
Outerborough (2005)
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In 1899, a photographer at American Mutoscope & Biograph mounted his camera on the front of a trolley traveling over the Brooklyn Bridge. The three 90-foot rolls he created were edited together to complete the journey from Manhattan to Brooklyn, enti...
- 2024
Incident (2024)
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Chicago, 2018. A man is killed by police on the street. Through a composite montage of images from surveillance and security footage as well as police body-cams, Incident recreates the event and its consequences, featuring vain justifications, alterc...
- 2021
let me come in (2021)
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Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Pawns of Passion (1928)....
- 2000
Ghost Trip (2000)
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Singer-songwriter Slink Moss plays the mysterious driver of a Cadillac hearse who journeys across America to pick up and drop off a hitchhiker to his (final?) destination. The nearly-wordless film stylishly re-imagines the open road as a state of Lim...
- 2021
Her Violet Kiss (2021)
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A woman attends a party where she is observed by and finally meets a mysterious guest....
- 2016
The Dockworker's Dream (2016)
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Drawing from Portugal’s rich heritage of shipping, trade, and exploration, “The Dockworker's Dream” takes the viewer on a journey downriver, into port, into factories, towns, and families, and out into the great unknown. Different ports of call are f...