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BILL
MORRISON
Biography
Born in Chicago, November 17, 1965
Graduated University of Chicago High School, 1983
Attended Reed College, Portland, OR 1983-85.
Received BFA from Cooper Union School of Art, New York, 1989
Post-graduate fellowship at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam,
1989
Lives in New York City, 1985-present.
Works as a free-lance editor and cinematographer
February 2005
“REPETITIONS” Group Show: Maya Stendhal Gallery, NY
January 2005
“Outer-borough” screened at the Museum of Modern Art
as part of the museum’s film series.
May 2004
Bill Morrison SOLO SHOW at the Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York.
May 2002
“Decasia” screened at the Museum of Modern Art as part
of the museum’s final film series at 11 West 53 rd Street
before closing for renovations until 2005.
April 2002
“Decasia” acquired by the Museum of Modern Art and the
Nederlands Filmmuseum for their permanent collections.
January 2002
World premiere of “Decasia” as a composite print film
at the 21 st Sundance Film Festival. Film also screens at the
31st International Film Festival Rotterdam.
November 2001
World premiere of “Decasia”, performed live with the
55-piece basel sinfonietta. The sinfonietta was positioned on a
three-storied triangular scaffolding structure, upon which the film
and slides were projected from all three sides, surrounding an audience
of 500 in Basel, Switzerland.
July 2001
Anthology Film Archives acquires "The Film of Her" for
permanent collection
May 2001
Named New York Foundation for the Arts grantee, 2001 Named Creative
Capital grantee, 2001 Village Voice OBIE Award for filmwork in the
Ridge Theater production of "Jennie Richee"
February 2001 – April 2002
Employed as editor for the third installment of Godfrey Reggio's
"Koyanisqaatsi" trilogy, entitled "Naqoyqatsi"
February 2001
World premiere of the Ridge Theater production "Jennie Richee",
written by Mac Wellman. Produced 45 minutes of original filmwork
which is incorporated into the set. Museum of Contemprary Art, Chicago.
January 2001
"Ghost Trip" (2000) awarded the Jurors' Choice (highest
award) of the Black Maria Film and Video Festival.
"The Film of Her" presented as part of the Recent Acquisitions
program at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
November 2000
Presenter and Lecturer, Boulder First Person Cinema, University
of Colorado
October 2000
Juror for the Viper International Festival of Film, Video, and New
Media; Basel, Switzerland
August 2000- December 2000
Adjuct Professor of Media Arts at the University of South Carolina,
Fall semester, 2000. Designed and taught a class entitled MART 657:
"Found Footage and Personal Cinema"
June 2000- November 2001
Commissioned to produce a film to accompany the world premiere of
composer Michael Gordon's original symphony, "Decasia",
to be performed by the Basel Sinfonietta, Basel Switzerland, November
2001.
June 2000
Premiered "Ghost Trip" at Hamburg International Short
Film Festival.
April 2000 -April 2001
Awarded fellowship for filmmaking from the John Simon Guggenheim
Foundation.
April - June 2000
Resident of the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough NH. Named the Elodie
Osborn fellow for filmmaking in the 2000-1 season.
April 2000
Visiting Artitst Lecturer at SUNY-Binghampton.
March 2000
Three titles acquired by the Museum of Modern Art for their permanent
collection, using the Jerome Foundation Acquisition Grant.
March 2000
Commissioned to create films for the Ridge Theater production "Jennie
Richee", based on the life and work of outsider artist Henry
Darger.
February 2000
"The Death Train" included in the Whitney Museum of American
Art's survey of the 20th century, "The Cool World: Film and
Video in America 1950-2000".
November 1999
Visiting Artist Lecturer, The University of South Carolina
September 1999
Panelist/Presenter at The University of South Carolina's "Orphans
of the Storm"
September 1999
Commissioned to produce film for the opera "The Carbon Copy
Building", presented by Bang On Can with Ridge Theater in Torino,
Italy and New York, NY. The opera won the 1999-2000 Village Voice
Obie Award for Best Original American production.
April 1999
Commissioned to create a 70 minute film to accompany the American
Repertory Theater's production of "Charlie in the House of
Rue". Cambridge, MA
March 1999
Visiting Artist Lecturer, Cooper Union Scool of Art, New York December
1998 Juror for the Black Maria Film and Video Festival December
1998
Directed promotional ID clips for Turner Classic Movies November
1998
Six solo shows at London's Institute of Contemporary Art . Solo
shows in Paris, Bordeaux, Marseilles, Grenoble, Geneva, and Utrecht.
August 1998
Presenter/Panelist at the Robert Flaherty Seminar.
April-May 1998
Three solo shows at Anthology Film Archives, NY
April 1998
Visiting Artist/Lecturer, The New School for Social Research, NYC
Solo shows in Santa Monica, Albuqurque, San Antonio, Shreveport,
New Orleans, and Chicago.
1997
Directed several music videos for Polygram (Zoar; Pilgrimage) and
for Columbia/Ruffhouse (Goat).
November 1997
Two solo shows at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires.
Solo show at Artists' Television Alliance in San Francisco.
1996
"The Film of Her" has been shown in over 50 film festivals
in more than 20 countries worldwide, winning seven awards. It is
included in the permanent collections of The New York Public Library,
the Nederlands Filmmuseum, Anthology Film Archives and The Museum
of Modern Art.
1995-6
Received fellowship to work at Fabrica, an Italian image studio
under the direction of photographer Oliviero Toscani of the Benetton
group, Treviso, Italy.
March 1995
Solo screening in Cineprobe series, The Museum of Modern Art, New
York. BILL
MORRISON - Filmography
Reserection (1989, 9 min, B/W, 16mm)
Night Highway (1990, 7 min, B/W, 16mm)
Lost Avenues (1991, 6 min, B/W & color, 16mm)
Footprints (1992, 6 min, B/W & color, 16mm)
Photo Op (1992, 5 min, B/W, 16mm)
The Death Train (1993, 17 min, B/W, 16mm)
The World Is Round (1994, 5 min, B/W, 16mm)
Nemo (1995, 6 min, B/W, 16mm,)
Vigneti (1996, 4 min, color, BetaSP)
Moda (1996, 7 min, B/W, BetaSP)
The Film of Her (1996, 12 min, B/W, 35mm)
Nine Days North (1996, 7 min, B/W, 16mm)
Another Sky (1997, 9 min, B/W, 16mm)
Big Non's Last Scrabble Game (1997, 17 min, color, BetaSP)
Ghost Trip (2000, 23 min, B/W, 35mm)
Trinity (2000, 12 min, B/W, 35mm) AWARDS
Ghost Trip:
Jurors' Choice - Black Maria Film Festival, 2001
The Film of Her: First Place, Experimental - USA Film Festival,
1997
Gold Award, Experimental - Houston Worldfest, 1997
Best Experimental Film - Sinking Creek Film Festival, 1997
Gold Award, Experimental - NYExpo of Short Film and Video, 1997
Jurors' Choice - Black Maria Film Festival, 1998
Silver Conch, Short Fiction - Mumbai International Film Festival,
1998
Best Documentary - Mediawave, Hungary, 1998
Festival screenings - Over 50, including Oberhausen, Rotterdam,
Sydney, Melbourne, Seattle, and Karlovy Vary.
Permanent Collections - Museum of Modern Art, NY Public Library,
Anthology Film Archives, Nederlands Filmmuseum.
The Death Train:
Dance Theater Workshop Bessie Award - for Excellence In Design,
'93
Best Film - Viper Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland, 1994
Permanent Collection - Museum of Modern Art Exhibited - Whitney
Museum of American Art, The American Century, 1950-2000.
Footprints:
Silver Hugo Award - Chicago Film Festival, October 1992
Jurors' Choice - Black Maria Film Festival, 1992
Grand Prize Winner - Bucks' County Film Tour, 1993
Permanent Collection - Museum of Modern Art
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
Cooper Union School Of Art - 4 Year Scholarship, New York, BFA 1989
Gerrit Rietveld Academie - 1 Year Scholarship, Amsterdam 1989
Fabrica - 1 Year Fellowship sponsored by the Benetton Corporation,
Italy, 1995-6
MacDowell Colony - 6 Week Residency, New Hampshire, 2000
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation - 1 Year Fellowship, 2000-1
New York Foundation for the Arts - Grantee, 2001
Creative Capital - Grantee, 2001
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
Millennium - New York, October 1993
Museum Of Modern Art - New York, March 1995;
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes - Buenos Aires, November 1997;
Artists' Television Alliance - San Francisco, November 1997
Chicago Filmmakers' - Chicago, April 1998
Anthology Film Archives - New York, April/May 1998;
L'Entrepot - Paris, October 1998
Institute of Contemporary Art - London, November 1998;
University of South Carolina - Columbia, SC, November 1999
SUNY- Binghampton - Binghampton, NY, April 2000
Ocularis - Brooklyn, NY, June 2000
University of Colorado - Boulder, CO, November 2000
George Eastman House - Rochester, NY February 2002
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