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"A Poetic Archeology of Cinema: The Films of Bill Morrison," The Walker Art Magazine. 2013.
"Matter and Memory: A Conversation with Bill Morrison," Offscreen. 2014.
Offscreen:
There’s another film, directed by Alain Resnais, but that Marker wrote the commentary for, Toute la mémoire du monde, (1956) which is very close to the issues you bring up in The Film of Her. Marker is another film maker who, although he works in very different ways from you, is very interested in this relationship between archive and memory. All of his films deal with the question of imprints, “impressions”.
Bill Morrison:
Absolutely, that film was a huge influence on me. I saw it in 1992. I’m glad you saw it, because it’s true, The Film of Her came directly out of that. I remember the hair raising up on the back of my neck when I saw this film… People often ask me if I would show my work and also curate films by other filmmakers to show and it’s always a perplexing questions, to bring in other experimental filmmakers and see how they relate other than the fact that we are working on our own. But I’ve always wanted to show them
“You know, when artists, in general, go about making a piece of art, they don’t think about how they fit into a tradition.”
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