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bernd herzogenrath (ed.) the films of bill morrison Copyright 2017. Amsterdam University Press. All rights reserved. May not be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except fair uses permitted under U.S. or applicable copyright law. EAABNcS:cC oO1u 6nP9tu1:b7 l0si61s 2h;4i 0nB9ge1 r9:n de BHoeorkz oAgceandreamtihc.a ;C oTlhelee cFstiilomtns (ohEfB SBCieOlhlo tsMto)ri r-ic spornsi n:t eAdeo sotnh ef3t/i 5c/st2 0oh2f1 t6he:e3 5A r AcMha ivviera UcNIVhERZIiTAv KAeRLOVA EYEFF FRIIALMLM MIMUNSGEUM the films of bill morrison EBSCOhost - printed on 3/5/2021 6:35 AM via UNIVERZITA KARLOVA. All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use 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 EBSCOhost - printed on 3/5/2021 6:35 AM via UNIVERZITA KARLOVA. All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use BERND HERZOGENRATH (ED.) THE FILMS OF BILL MORRISON Aesthetics of the Archive amsterdam university press EBSCOhost - printed on 3/5/2021 6:35 AM via UNIVERZITA KARLOVA. All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use 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 Amsterdam University Press English-language titles are distributed in the US and Canada by the University of Chicago Press. isbn 978 90 8964 996 6 e-isbn 978 90 4852 909 4 doi 10.5117/9789089649966 nur 670 © B. Herzogenrath / Amsterdam University Press B.V., Amsterdam 2018 All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the author of the book. Every effort has been made to obtain permission to use all copyrighted illustrations repro- duced in this book. Nonetheless, whosoever believes to have rights to this material is advised to contact the publisher. EBSCOhost - printed on 3/5/2021 6:35 AM via UNIVERZITA KARLOVA. All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use 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 EBSCOhost - printed on 3/5/2021 6:35 AM via UNIVERZITA KARLOVA. All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use 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 EBSCOhost - printed on 3/5/2021 6:35 AM via UNIVERZITA KARLOVA. All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use 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 | 7 EBSCOhost - printed on 3/5/2021 6:35 AM via UNIVERZITA KARLOVA. All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use EBSCOhost - printed on 3/5/2021 6:35 AM via UNIVERZITA KARLOVA. All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use 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. EBSCOhost - printed on 3/5/2021 6:35 AM via UNIVERZITA KARLOVA. All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use
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