Bill Morrison
David Lang Darker, performed by Ensemble Signal, with film by Bill Morrison
Bill Morrison is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker who has been called “the poet laureate of lost films” (New York Times, 9/21/2021). He is best known for two cult classics: Decasia (2002), the first film of the 21st century to be named to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, and Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) which has often been listed as one of the best films of its decade (2010s). His last film, Incident (2023) won the International Documentary Association Award, Cinema Eye Honors, and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2025 for Documentary Short.