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"The film's the creature": Filmmaker Bill Morrison's investigations into decay are anything but silent films

Morrison’s work—which screens this week at the Winter Garden and next week at Film Forum—is not easy to categorize. He's an experimental filmmaker, but also a documentarian, an archivist, a composer of “visual music” and, most famously, someone who works with the very stuff—that monster decay—which threatens to destroy the footage he assembles. Generally in his films there is no dialogue; the only sound is the score, and for that reason he’s frequently referred to as a maker of silent films, which he bristles at. More

Posted on January 31st, 2012 4:56pm