The Films of Bill Morrison: Aesthetics of the Archive
The Films of Bill Morrison: Aesthetics of the Archive
edited by Bernd Herzogenrath
Amsterdam University Press, 2017 Cloth: 978-90-8964-996-6 | eISBN: 978-90-485-2909-4 Library of Congress Classification PN1998.3.M6855F55 2018
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 Morrison's work, covering the whole of his career. It gathers specialists throughout film studies to explore Morrison's "aesthetics of the archive"-his creative play with archival footage and his focus on the materiality of the medium of film.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Bernd Herzogenrath teaches American literature and culture at Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany. He is the author of An American Body|Politic: A Deleuzian Approach and editor of numerous collections, a.o. two books on Tod Browning, and two books on Edgar G. Ulmer.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Aesthetics of the archive. An introductionBernd HerzogenrathDrafts and fragments. Reflections around bill morrison and the paper print collection André HabibThe film of her (1996). The cine-poet laureate of orphan filmsDan StreibleGhost trip (2000). Searching for potential myths Benjamin LéonDecasia (2002). The matter|image: film is also a thingBernd HerzogenrathThe mesmerist (2003). Illustrating the return of the repressedHans MorgensternLight is calling (2004). Celluloid dreamsHanjo BerressemGotham (2004). Zoetrope: block by blockDavid GerstenOuterborough (2005). Early cinema revisitedJan-Christoph HorakHighwater trilogy (2006). Thinking the liquid: on the material ecologies of disaster and ruinationYasmin AfsharPorch (2007). Archives, collective memory, and the poetics of home moviesWilliam CusickThe future lasts long. The romanov lost family archives (photo essay)Agnes VilletteWho by water (2007). Variations on matter, figures, memory and mythologyAndrea PierronEvery stop on the f train (2008). Beyond and within the restless netherworld of (manhattan’s) mindBenjamin BetkaSpark of being (2010). Bachelor machineBérénice ReynaudThe miners’ hymns (2011). Acts of resurrectionSimon PoppleTributes - pulse. A requiem for the 20th century (2011) | death|drive|imageJohannes BinottoJust ancient loops (2012). The loops of life in intonationEva HoffmannThe great flood (2013). Water is transparence derived from the presence of everythingSukhdev SandhuRe:awakenings (2013). Bill morrison in conversationLawrence Weschler