Short Films by Bill Morrison October 25, 2008

Renowned filmmaker, Bill Morrison brings his short films to Aurora Picture Show. Morrison has eight titles in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. His films have been screened at cinematheques, museums and concert halls worldwide, including BAM, Carnegie Hall, the Hirshhorn Museum, Lincoln Center, MoMA, the National Gallery of Art, the Tate Modern, and Royal Festival Hall. Bill has received an Alpert Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, and an award from the Foundation for Contemporary Art, as well as production grants from Creative Capital, NYSCA, NYFA, and the NEA. 'Decasia,' his feature length collaboration with composer Michael Gordon, has been performed live with a 55-piece orchestra surrounding audiences in Basel in 2001, at St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn, in 2004, and in Los Angeles' Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2006. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and on the Sundance Channel in 2002, and was named one of the ten best films of 2003 by the Village Voice.