Bill Morrison

Filmmaker
September 30, 2020 - 5:00pm
Reflecting on the making of Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)

Pre-registration: Please register in advance for this event here.  After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Members of the Yale community can see Dawson City here (Must be signed in). 

Co-sponsored by the Film and Media Studies Program, the School of Art, the Yale Film Study Center and the Public Humanities Program at Yale.

About Bill Morrison

Bill Morrison (born Chicago, 1965) makes films that reframe long-forgotten moving images as part of a collective mythology. His work has been recognized with the Alpert Award, Creative Capital, Foundation for Contemporary Art, and a Guggenheim fellowship. Morrison had a mid-career retrospective at MoMA in 2014. His found footage opus Decasia (2002), with music by Michael Gordon, was the first film of the 21st century to be selected to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. The Great Flood (2013), with music by Bill Frisell, was recognized with the Smithsonian Ingenuity Award of 2014 for historical scholarship. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016), with music by Alex Somers, was included on numerous lists of the best films of the decade (2010s), including those of the chief critics for the Associated Press (Jake Coyle), Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan), and Vanity Fair (Richard Lawson).