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Bill Morrison
Award-winning filmmaker Bill Morrison has eight titles in the
permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, including Light Is Calling, Decasia, and The Film of Her. Decasia, the acclaimed collaboration with composer Michael Gordon, was named one of the ten best films of 2003 by J. Hoberman of the Village Voice.

Bill's work has been featured in programs at MoMA, The Tate Modern, Lincoln Center, The Whitney Museum, London's ICA, MassMOCA, Carnegie Hall, The Wexner Center, The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum, and most recently in a solo show at the Maya Stendhal Gallery. His films have been broadcast on PBS, The Sundance Channel, and Arté, and have been featured at international film festivals worldwide, such as Sundance, Rotterdam, San Francisco, and Edinburgh. His projected set work with the acclaimed performance ensemble Ridge Theater has been recognized with two "Bessie" awards for excellence in theatrical design (1993, 2003) and a Village Voice "Obie" for collaborative design (2001). Morrison has received grants from The Guggenheim Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, the 2004 NEA Creativity Grant, NYSCA, NYFA, and Creative Capital.

BAM Performance History
The New Yorkers —2003 Next Wave Festival
The Death of Klinghoffer —2003 Next Wave Festival
Shelter 2005 Next Wave Festival