Repurposed Footage Movies

Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Pawns of Passion (1928).

Little Orphant Annie is a re-edit of a silent film of the same title from 1918, directed by Colin Campbell. Two reels from an original nitrate print...

An ongoing exploration of the films of Rose Hobart and a re-duplication of Joseph Cornell's infamous found footage masterpiece

The video Analepsis, 2003-04, is composed of a series of excerpts taken from satellite television news reports. The individual 1-4 second clips are...

A lucid dream turned nightmarish reality. A ship sinking into a world of fear. A short film that’s mostly puppetry by one of America's...

Using the discarded, deteriorating remnants from seven silent film titles, filmmaker Bill Morrison braids a story of intertwining love triangles that...

A short film where circus performers entertain children.

Black-and-white film projections by Bill Morrison, using archival footage of frigid Arctic scenes.