Bill Morrison: Selected Films. Bill Morrison, 1996-2014.
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Edition screened: BFI 3-Blu-ray set, released 2015. English language. Cumulative runtime approximately 460 minutes.
Summary: The Film of Her includes a famous 1903 short clip of an elephant being electrocuted. No other films in the set include any particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
This Blu-ray set includes:
The Film of Her. 1996, approximately 12 minutes. English language.
A romanticized account of the real discovery and saving of a vast collection of early film documents in the National Archives. Among the antique images is a 5-second clip (2:48-2:53) from Edison Film Company’s Electrocuting an Elephant, a 1903 document of the execution of Coney Island’s ‘Topsy’.
City Walk. 1999, approximately 6 minutes. No dialogue track, score by Michael Gordon.
Ghost Trip. 2000, approximately 23 minutes. English language.
Decasia: The State of Decay. 2002, approximately 67 minutes. No dialogue track, score by Michael Gordon.
The Mesmerist. 2003, approximately 16 minutes. English intertitles, no dialogue track, score by Bill Frisell.
Light Is Calling. 2004, approximately 8 minutes. No dialogue track, score by Michael Gordon.
Outerborough. 2005, approximately 9 minutes. No dialogue track, score by Todd Reynolds.
Porch. 2006, approximately 9 minutes. No dialogue track, English language score by Julia Wolfe, David Lang, et al.
The Highwater Trilogy. 2006, approximately 31 minutes. No dialogue track, English language score by David Lang and Michael Gordon.
Who By Water. 2007, approximately 18 minutes. No dialogue track, score by Michael Gordon.
Spark of Being. 2010, approximately 67 minutes. No dialogue track, score by Dave Douglas.
Release. 2010, approximately 13 minutes. No dialogue track.
Just Ancient Loops. 2012, approximately 26 minutes. No dialogue track.
Re:Awakenings. 2013, approximately 18 minutes. English intertitles, score by Philip Glass.
The Great Flood. 2013, approximately 78 minutes. English intertitles, score by Bill Frisell.
Beyond Zero: 1914-1918. 2014, approximately 41 minutes. English Language, score by Kronos quartet.
Back to the Soil. 2014, approximately 18 minutes. English subtitles, score by David Lang.