Bill Morrison : Footprints ( Footprints / The Film of Her / Ghost Trip / The Highwater Trilogy / Porch / Who by Water / Release / Just Ancient Loops / Re: Awakenings / Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 / The Dockworker's Dream / The Letter / Wild Girl / Let Me Come In / Her Violet Kiss )

Bill Morrison : Footprints (Blu-Ray) (*)

$36.99

Original Title: Footprints / The Film of Her / Ghost Trip / The Highwater Trilogy / Porch / Who by Water / Release / Just Ancient Loops / Re: Awakenings / Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 / The Dockworker's Dream / The Letter / Wild Girl / Let Me Come In / Her Violet Kiss
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
248 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1992-2021 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Bill Morrison

Written By:
Hugh Esten
Jim Farmer
Bill Morrison

Deborah Artman
Oliver Sacks
Lawrence Weschler
Wiktor Bieganski
Carmine Gallone

Actors:
Guy de Lancey ..... The Narrator
Stephen Kellam ..... The Custodian (The Vault Sequence)
Bob McGrath ..... The Clerk (The Vault Sequence)
Bill Morrison ..... The Curator
Rachel Perkoff ..... Lily Gaze (The Vault Sequence)
Kofi Darko ..... Attendant
Herman Dennis ..... Preacher
Slink Moss ..... Driver
William Schwartz ..... Hitchhiker
Arthur Smith ..... Singer
Hans Stüwe
Olga Tschechowa

Synopsis:

Footprints: Footprints is an impressionistic fusion of film history and poetic vision. Bill Morrison achieves a lyrical examination of the process of perception and the development of motion pictures. Alternatively humorous and edge, Morrison's rhythmic editing gives the film a visual pulse, like a heartbeat. The Film of Her: Based on the story of Howard Walls, A clerk at the Library of Congress who saved a collection of early paper reel films from the incinerator, director Bill Morrison embellishes the tale a bit in this inspired short work. Here, the vision of a woman in an early porno film has been engrained in the mind of a man working at the Library of Congress and his search for the film of her has an unexpected consequence, as he saves a collection of historically significant films from being destroyed. Ghost Trip: 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 Limbo. The Highwater Trilogy: Divided into three sections, Bill Morrison's The Highwater Trilogy examines our relationship to the threat of natural disaster by combining archival footage of icebergs, hurricanes, and floods with a soundtrack by David Lang and Michael Gordon. Porch: A home-movie portrait of an ordinary American family, taken over many years and framed in the porch of their house. Who by Water: Drawing from a passage from the Rosh Hashana Service, 'Who shall live, who shall die… who by water, who by fire,' this short film deals with that which has been preordained-a future history that will in time unfold before us as the faces of passengers on a ship forces us to contemplate our own fate. Release: On March 17, 1930, a crowd assembled outside Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary to witness Al Capone's transfer to Chicago, where he would stand trial. Filmmaker Bill Morrison and composer Vijay Iyer worked with a single panning shot, and accompanying soundtrack, to create this 12-minute film on the nature of spectacle. Just Ancient Loops: 'Just Ancient Loops' employs high resolution scans of ancient nitrate footage, as well as newly created CGI renderings of space to depict different views of heaven. Original musical score by Michael Harrison, performed by cellist Maya Beiser. Re: Awakenings: During the early 1920s, a rare form of encephalitis lethargica swept the world, afflicting hundreds of thousands of people. Of those who survived, many were left in mysteriously frozen, nearly immobile states resembling catatonia, and presently remanded to long term institutions. By 1969, this odd illness--front page news in the 1920s--had been largely forgotten. But a young Dr. Oliver Sacks, coming to work at Beth Abraham, a 'home for incurables' in the Bronx, realized that among the hospital's inmates were eighty survivors of that original epidemic, still frozen in time, decades later. Using the new drug L-dopa, Sacks was able to 'awaken' many of them, but following an initially near-idyllic period, the patients began experiencing ever more tormenting responses to the drug. Beyond Zero: 1914-1918: Sourcing original 35mm nitrate footage, filmmaker Bill Morrison pieces together a unique visual exploration of WWI from footage that has never been viewed by modern audiences, and will never be seen again outside of this film. Serbian composer Aleksandra Vrebalov created the haunting score, commissioned and performed by the Kronos Quartet. The Dockworker's Dream: 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 framed by the solitary sojourn of a dockworker, perhaps remembering his own past, or dreaming of another's. Like the hunters in his dream, the film seeks to recover ancient and seldom viewed images from the recesses of our collective memory. The Letter: Using the discarded, deteriorating remnants from seven silent film titles, filmmaker Bill Morrison braids a story of intertwining love triangles that pivots between the accounts of two women. Wild Girl: A short film made during lockdown. Let Me Come In: Film is a re-purposing of an early nitrate film, Pawns of Passion (Germany, 1928) which has begun deteriorating, into a new story, allowing us to preserve what still remains while also appreciating the beauty of its transformation. Music and lyrics have been added to enhance the storytelling. Her Violet Kiss: A woman attends a party where she is observed by and finally meets a mysterious guest.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 21 March, 2025.