Forma is working with Bill Morrison in collaboration with Jóhann Jóhannsson on a new commission for BRASS: Durham International Festival 2010.
Using film footage from the Northern Region Film and Television Archive, Morrison will weave together a film about life in local mining communities, set to a specially composed sound score by Jóhann Jóhannsson.
Bill Morrison's films have been screened at festivals, museums and concert halls worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sundance Film Festival, The Tate Modern, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles.
He has been commissioned to create films for some of the most important composers of his time, including John Adams, Gavin Bryars, Bill Frisell, Michael Gordon, Henryk Gorecki, David Lang, Harry Partch, Steve Reich and Julia Wolfe.
Decasia, his feature length collaboration with composer Michael Gordon, is described by J. Hoberman of the Village Voice as “the most widely acclaimed American avant-garde film of the fin-de-siècle.”
Morrison is a Guggenheim fellow and has received the Alpert Award. As a projection designer, his work with Ridge Theater has been recognised with two Bessie awards and an Obie award. Recent work includes the video design for Wallace Shawn’s Grasses of a Thousand Colors at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
