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BILL MORRISON

Bill Morrison Award-winning filmmaker Bill Morrison has seven titles in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, including LIGHT IS CALLING, DECASIA and THE FILM OF HER. His work has been screened at The Tate Modern, Lincoln Center, The Whitney Museum, London’s ICA, MassMOCA, Carnegie Hall, The Wexner Center, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, and The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum, among many other venues.

His films have been broadcast on PBS, The Sundance Channel, and Arté, and have been featured at international film festivals worldwide, such as Sundance, Rotterdam, San Francisco and Edinburgh. His projected set work with the acclaimed performance ensemble Ridge Theater has been recognized with two "Bessie" awards for excellence in theatrical design (1993, 2003) and a Village Voice "Obie" for collaborative design (2001). Bill has received grants from The Guggenheim Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, The 2004 NEA Creativity Grant, NYSCA, NYFA and Creative Capital. DECASIA premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and was named one of the ten best films of 2003 (#3) by J. Hoberman of the Village Voice.

Films by Bill Morrison:

DECASIA: THE STATE OF DECAY