FESTIVAL SCHEDULE:

FRIDAY OCTOBER 24, 8:00 pm
Bill Morrison: Short Works

Morrison will show works from his collaborations with composer Michael Gordon, including City Walk (2003, 6 min), a trip up Brooklyn’s Flatbush Avenue to Manhattan; Light Is Calling (2004, 8 min), a meditation on the nature of random collisions, as seen through the roiling emulsion of an ancient film; Gotham (2004, 25 min), New York continually rebuilds itself on top of itself, layering over the past eras and ushering in newly minted ones; Who By Water (2007, 18 min), ship passengers are depicted staring wordlessly into the camera’s lens; East River (2003, 5 min), a brief glimpse of Manhattan's skin; and excerpts from the The Highwater Trilogy (2006, 31 min), an epic meditation on erosion and natural disasters composed of subtly deteriorating found footage.

Location: Aurora Picture Show
Tickets and Information: 713-868-2101


SATURDAY OCTOBER 25, 7:00 pm
Decasia: The State of Decay (2001)
A new kind of documentary with music composed by Michael Gordon, in which Morrison uses decomposing film stock as raw material and draws on the tension between the fact of film’s unstable surface and the fragile nature of what was once photographically represented. An artist talk with Morrison will follow the film program.