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the films of bill morrison
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FRAMING
FILM
framing film is a book series dedicated to
theoretical and analytical studies in restoration,
collection, archival, and exhibition practices in line
with the existing archive of EYE Filmmuseum. With
this series, Amsterdam University Press and EYE aim
to support the academic research community, as well
as practitioners in archive and restoration.
series editors
Giovanna Fossati, EYE Filmmuseum & University of
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Leo van Hee, EYE Filmmuseum
Frank Kessler, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Patricia Pisters, University of Amsterdam,
the Netherlands
Dan Streible, New York University, United States
Nanna Verhoeff, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
editorial board
Richard Abel, University of Michigan, United States
Jane Gaines, Columbia University, United States
Tom Gunning, University of Chicago, United States
Vinzenz Hediger, Goethe University Frankfurt,
Germany
Martin Koerber, Deutsche Kinemathek, Germany
Ann-Sophie Lehmann, University of Groningen,
the Netherlands
Charles Musser, Yale University, United States
Julia Noordegraaf, University of Amsterdam,
the Netherlands
William Uricchio, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, United States
Linda Williams, University of California at Berkeley,
United States
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BERND HERZOGENRATH (ED.)
THE FILMS OF
BILL MORRISON
Aesthetics of the Archive
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Published by EYE Filmmuseum / Amsterdam University Press
Published by EYE Filmmuseum / Amsterdam University Press
Cover illustration: Courtesy of Bill Morrison
Cover design and lay-out: Magenta Ontwerpers, Bussum
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e-isbn 978 90 4852 909 4
doi 10.5117/9789089649966
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements 9 | 5
AESTHETICS OF THE ARCHIVE: AN INTRODUCTION 11
Bernd Herzogenrath
1 DRAFTS AND FRAGMENTS: REFLECTIONS AROUND BILL MORRISON AND
THE PAPER PRINT COLLECTION 31
André Habib
2 THE FILM OF HER: THE CINE-POET LAUREATE OF ORPHAN FILMS 51
Dan Streible
3 GHOST TRIP: SEARCHING FOR POTENTIAL MYTHS 69
Benjamin Léon
4 DECASIA: THE MATTER|IMAGE: FILM IS ALSO A THING 84
Bernd Herzogenrath
5 THE MESMERIST: ILLUSTRATING THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED 97
Hans Morgenstern
6 LIGHT IS CALLING: CELLULOID DREAMS 109
Hanjo Berressem
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7 GOTHAM: ZOETROPE: BLOCK BY BLOCK 123
David Gersten
8 OUTERBOROUGH: EARLY CINEMA REVISITED 137
Jan-Christopher Horak
9 THE HIGHWATER TRILOGY: THINKING THE LIQUID – ON THE ETHICS OF
WATER AND THE MATERIAL ECOLOGIES OF DISASTER AND RUINATION 151
Yasmin Afshar
10 PORCH: ARCHIVES, COLLECTIVE MEMORY, AND THE POETICS OF
HOME MOVIES 167
William Cusick
6 | 11 THE FUTURE LASTS LONG: THE ROMANOV LOST FAMILY ARCHIVES 177
Agnès Villete
12 WHO BY WATER: VARIATIONS ON MATTER, FIGURES, MEMORY,
AND MYTHOLOGY 187
Andrea Pierron
13 EVERY STOP ON THE F-TRAIN: BEYOND AND WITHIN THE RESTLESS
NETHERWORLD OF (MANHATTAN’S) MIND 199
Benjamin Betka
14 SPARK OF BEING: BACHELOR MACHINE 211
Bérénice Reynaud
15 THE MINERS’ HYMNS: ACTS OF RESURRECTION 227
Simon Popple
16 TRIBUTES – PULSE: A REQUIEM FOR THE 20TH CENTURY:
DEATH | DRIVE | IMAGE 241
Johannes Binotto
17 JUST ANCIENT LOOPS: THE LOOPS OF LIFE IN INTONATION 253
Eva Hoffmann
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18 THE GREAT FLOOD: WATER IS TRANSPARENCE DERIVED FROM THE PRESENCE
OF EVERYTHING 265
Sukhdev Sandhu
19 RE-AWAKENINGS: BILL MORRISON IN CONVERSATION 277
Lawrence Weschler
Index of Film Titles 289
Index of Names 291
Index of Subjects 295
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Amsterdam University Press for | 9
giving us the opportunity to publish this book; to all those wonderful people
that contributed to this volume – it has been a pleasure!
Special thanks go to Louisa Natterer and Sebastian Scherer for all the work
you’ve put into this …
And my heartfelt gratitude and admiration goes to Bill Morrison for all his
support and, most of all, for his wonderful art!
All images reproduced courtesy of Bill Morrison and Hypnotic Pictures.
I dedicate this book to Janna and Claudia, and to the memory of Frank.
Part of the Introduction and part of Bernd Herzogenrath’s essay already had
a previous life in Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image 6 (2014)
… republished with kind permission.
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