{"id":12018,"date":"2016-11-24T17:35:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T16:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etiudaandanima.com\/?p=12018"},"modified":"2016-11-25T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T10:37:00","slug":"maciej-j-drygas-presents-bill-morrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundacja.etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/news\/maciej-j-drygas-presents-bill-morrison\/","title":{"rendered":"Maciej J. Drygas presents: Bill Morrison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maciej J. Drygas, great Polish documentalist and father of found footage<\/em>, meaning method of creating new stuff from existing movie materials, during this year's Etiuda&Anima presents his own choice of ten movies\u00a0found footage<\/em>. In retrospective there three movies by \u00a0Bill Morrison, unquestionable master of this technique.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bill Morrison is American artist, director and producer of experimental an documental movies, who consequently uses method\u00a0found footage<\/em>. On festival Etiuda&Anima we will see his three movies\u00a0found footage<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u201eDecasia\u201d <\/strong>\u2013 Bill Morrison created DECASIA entirely out of decaying, old found footage, melded to the music of Bang on a Can\u2019s Michael Gordon, performed by the 55 piece basel sinfonietta<\/em>. The result is a delirium of deteriorated film stock, a moving avant-garde masterpiece that leaves its meaning open to interpretation and, most importantly, your imagination.<\/p>\n

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Photo from the film \"Decasia\"<\/p>\n

\u201eLight Is Calling\u201d <\/strong>\u2013 In Light Is Calling<\/em>, a scene from James Young\u2019s The Bells <\/em>(1926) was optically reprinted and edited to Michael Gordon\u2019s seven minute composition whose aesthetic fascinated Bill Morrison. We watch a decomposing film reel of a soldier who meets a mysterious woman in the woods. A state of meditation on the random and fleeting nature of life and love, as seen through the roiling emulsion of an ancient film is being achieved. In Light is calling\u00a0 <\/em>Morrison has reshooted decomposing black and white film, and the result is a dreamy, melting, light-drenched material.<\/p>\n

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Photo from the film \"The Great Flood\"<\/p>\n

\u201eThe Great Flood\u201d <\/strong>\u2013 \u00a0The Mississippi River Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in American history. In the spring of 1927, the river broke out of its earthen embankments and flooded 27,000 square miles. Part of its legacy was the forced exodus of displaced sharecroppers, who left plantation life and migrated to Northern cities, adapting to an industrial society with its own set of challenges. Musically, the Great Migration fueled the evolution of acoustic blues to electric blues bands that thrived in cities like Memphis, Detroit and Chicago becoming the wellspring for R&B and rock as well as developing jazz styles. The Great flood <\/em>has been created as a result of the collaboration between filmmaker and multimedia artist Bill Morrison and guitarist and composer Bill Frisell. In the film, the bubbles and washes of decaying footage are associated with the destructive force of rising water, the filmstock seeming to have been bathed in the same water as the images depicted on it.<\/p>\n

In programme we will see documentaries from Soviet Union \u2013 \u201eThe Beginning\u201d, \u201eThe Inhabitants\u201d and \u201eOur Century\u201d by Artavazd Peleshian, and \u201eBlocade\u201d by Siergiej Loznica from 2006. We will screen also Dutch found <\/em>footage<\/em>: \u201eMother Dao, The Turtlelike\u201d by Vincent Monnikendam and \u201cMaelstrom \u2013 A Family Chronicle\u201d by P\u00e9ter Forg\u00e1cs.<\/p>\n

10 found footage of five authors in choice of\u00a0 Maciej J. Drygas<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ma\u0142opolski Ogr\u00f3d Sztuki \u2013 Small Screnning Room<\/strong>
\nNovember 25th (Friday), 19.15 \u2013 \u201eBlocade\u201d<\/strong>
\nNovember 25th (Friday), 20.30 \u2013 \u201eLight is Calling\u201d,\u00a0 \u201eThe Great Flood\u201d<\/strong>
\nNovember 26th (Saturday), 18.00 \u2013 \u201eThe Beginning\u201d, \u201eThe Inhabitants\u201d, \u201eOur Century\u201d<\/strong>
\nNovember 26th (Saturday), 21.00 \u2013 \u201eThe Maelstrom\u201d \u2013 A Family Chronicle\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kij\u00f3w Centrum \u2013 Large Screening Room<\/strong>
\nNovember 26th (Saturday), 16.00 \u2013<\/strong> \u00a0\u201eDecasia\u201d<\/strong>
\nNovember 27th (Sunday) 14.00 \u2013 \u201eMother Dao, the Turtlelike\u201d<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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