BILL MORRISON –
WORKS ON FILM
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“The Film of Her”
is one of Morrison’s most outstanding works, a personal, cerebral, yet moving
experimental-documentary about the forgotten legacy of the Library of Congress
clerk, Howard L. Walls, who rediscovered the paper print collection in 1939 (Kemp
Niver would later receive an Academy Award for restoring the collection.) With this piece Morrison explores ideas of “The Archive as Memory, The Discovery of Unseen Films, the Mortality of Humans vs. the Mortality of Films, and the Fleeting Nature of Life as Manifested by Film.” This is one of Bill Morrison’s pieces which is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. |