"Director: Bill Morrison"

• Dawson City: Frozen Time | DVD | (18/02/2019) from £11.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Named as one of the best films of 2017 by more than 100 critics worldwide, Dawson City: Frozen Time pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of over 500 nitrate film prints dating from the early 1900s. Discovered buried deep in the permafrost beneath Dawson City, a former Klondike gold rush town, the story they reveal and Morrison's haunting found-footage documentary links that gold rush town to the dawn of cinema and the rise of the modern age. Bill Morrison's incredible film conjures the birth of the modern age through these unearthed newsreels, old silent movies (in some cases, the only copies in existence of films by D.W. Griffith and Tod Browning, among others) and documentary images of the town to create a unique kaleidoscope of cinema and history. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: Dawson City Frozen Time presented from a new 4K master New and exclusive interview with filmmaker Bill Morrison Dawson City: Postscript Short film The Letter Booklet featuring a new essay on the film. Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Region Free DVD (Region 0 ) 5.1 Surround and 2.0 Stereo audio options.

• Dawson City: Frozen Time | Blu Ray | (18/02/2019) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Named as one of the best films of 2017 by more than 100 critics worldwide, Dawson City: Frozen Time pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of over 500 nitrate film prints dating from the early 1900s. Discovered buried deep in the permafrost beneath Dawson City, a former Klondike gold rush town, the story they reveal and Morrison's haunting found-footage documentary links that gold rush town to the dawn of cinema and the rise of the modern age. Bill Morrison's incredible film conjures the birth of the modern age through these unearthed newsreels, old silent movies (in some cases, the only copies in existence of films by D.W. Griffith and Tod Browning, among others) and documentary images of the town to create a unique kaleidoscope of cinema and history. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: Dawson City Frozen Time presented from a new 4K master New and exclusive interview with filmmaker Bill Morrison Dawson City: Postscript Short film The Letter Selections from the Dawson Film Find: British Canadian Pathé News 1919 (includes 1919 World Series), International News Vol. 1, Issue 52, 1919 The Montreal Herald Screen Magazine 1919 Pathé's Weekly #17, 1914 The Butler and the Maid, Thomas A. Edison Inc., 1912 Brutality, D.W. Griffith, Biograph Company, 1912 The Exquisite Thief, r.2, director, Tod Browning, 1919 The Girl of the Northern Woods, Thanhouser, 1910 Booklet featuring a new essay on the film. Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Region Free Blu-ray (A/B/C) DTS-HD 5.1 Surround and 2.0 Stereo 24-bit LPCM audio options.

• The Miners' Hymns | DVD | (20/06/2011) from £12.09   |  Saving you £7.90 (65.34%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An elegy in film and music to the coal mining history of North East England and a unique creative collaboration between the renowned American filmmaker Bill Morrison (Decasia) and acclaimed Icelandic musician and composer Jhann Jhannsson. Created from archive and newly-shot film footage The Miners' Hymns celebrates the sense of vibrant community rich self-organised culture and the forbearance that characterised the lives of those who worked underground and the places in which they lived. Accompanying Morrison's filmic collage Jhannsson's newly composed modern classical score draws upon the region's brass music culture: image and sound combine to create a rich homage to Britain's coal mining heritage.

• Bill Morrison: Selected Films 1996-2014 (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (04/05/2015) from £20.05   |  Saving you £29.94 (149.33%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Over the past twenty years Bill Morrison has built a filmography of more than thirty striking and original work which have been presented in cinemas museums galleries and concert halls worldwide. Making use of rare archival footage which has often been decayed by the passing of time Morrison explores the power of film as a medium which is evocative of memory and gives rise to a sense of collective mythology. Morrison’s exquisite and timeless films are scored by the cream of the US underground / avant-garde music scene including Dave Douglas Henryk Górecki and Bill Frisell. This extensive collection makes Morrison’s acclaimed films available in Europe for the first time. The set includes his renowned 2002 feature Decasia (67 mins) as well as the evocative Spark of Being (67 mins) The Great Flood (78 mins) Light is Calling (8 mins); The Mesmerist (16 mins) Ghost Trip (23 mins) Outerborough (9 mins); Who by Water (22 mins) and Just Ancient Loops (26 mins). Bonus Features: Presented in High Definition Interview with Bill Morrison (2013 9 mins) Special packaging with extensive booklet

• Decasia - The State Of Decay | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Bill Morrison Collection (2-DVD) | DVD | (23/06/2014) from £31.03   |  Saving you £-8.04 (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Over the past twenty years Bill Morrison has built a filmography of more than thirty projects that have been presented in cinemas, museums, galleries and concert halls worldwide. His work often makes use of rare archival footage in which forgotten film imagery is reframed as part of our collective mythology. Morrison's films are scored by the cream of US underground / avant garde music scene.