FOOTPRINTS

by Bill MORRISON
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Morrison releases primordial film from being material that is destined to decomposition and darkness: in his hands, it transforms to become film as experience once more. Uninterested in restoring images to a pristine state, Morrison is nonetheless invested in restoring images, in various conditions of collapse, to movement and to people. And this is some of the magic of his cinema: that timeless magic of images being animated on a screen before a spectator. – Laura Staab

A film like Beyond Zero: 1914-1918, mainly made up of archival documentary footage from the First World War, presented without any captions or commentary, without the authority of a historian, gives viewers a harrowing sensory experience of the conflict. The monstrous drama stems from the very nature of photo-filmic celluloid, which is both indexical and material: the bodies of the soldiers, of the wounded and of the nurses are deformed, they shake under the filmic damage which looks like bombs raining down, they are riddled with holes, they disappear in decomposing celluloid. This is, quite literally, the last trace they will leave in this world, printed on celluloid, disappearing before our very eyes. – Anne-Violaine Houcke

+ 44-page bilingual FR/EN booklet with texts by Anne-Violaine Houcke, Laura Staab and Steve Dollar


CONTENT


FOOTPRINTS
1992 / coul-n&b / sonore / 6' 00
by Bill MORRISON
THE FILM OF HER
1996 / n&b / sonore / 13' 00
by Bill MORRISON
GHOST TRIP
2000 / 23' 00
by Bill MORRISON
THE HIGHWATER TRILOGY
2006 / 31' 00
by Bill MORRISON
PORCH
2007 / 9' 00
by Bill MORRISON
WHO BY WATER
2007 / n&b / sonore / 17' 00
by Bill MORRISON
RELEASE
2010 / 13' 00
by Bill MORRISON
JUST ANCIENT LOOPS
2012 / 26' 00
by Bill MORRISON
RE:AWAKENING
2013 / 18' 00
by Bill MORRISON
BEYOND ZERO: 1914-1918
2014 / 40' 00
by Bill MORRISON
THE DOCKWORKER'S DREAM
2015 / 17' 00
by Bill MORRISON
THE LETTER
2018 / 13' 00
by Bill MORRISON
WILD GIRL
2021 / 6' 00
by Bill MORRISON
LET ME COME IN
2021 / 11' 00
by Bill MORRISON
HER VIOLET KISS
2021 / 5' 00
by Bill MORRISON

MORE INFORMATION


release date 2023
publisher RE:VOIR
format Bluray BD50
number of disks 1
running time 248 min.
subtitles Français