Bill Morrison (director)
Bill Morrison( born November 17, 1965) is an American, New York – based filmmaker and artist.
His films often combine rare archival material set to contemporary music, and have been screened in theaters, cinemas, museums, galleries, and concert halls around the world.
Morrison was born in Chicago, Illinois.
He attended Reed College from 1983 to 1985, and graduated with a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in 1989.
He received the President's Citation from Cooper Union in 2016.
Morrison had a mid-career retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art, October 2014 – March 2015.
He is a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and has received the Alpert Awards in the Arts, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Capital, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award( 2003).
His theatrical projection design with Ridge Theater has been recognized with two Bessie Awards, and an Obie Award.
Morrison has collaborated with some of the most influential composers and performers of our time, including John Adams, Gavin Bryars, Bill Frisell, Philip Glass, Michael Gordon, Henryk Górecki, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Kronos Quartet, David Lang, Steve Reich,& Julia Wolfe among many others.
" Decasia"( 2002), his feature- length collaboration with composer Michael Gordon, was selected by the Library of Congress to its National Film Registry in 2013, becoming the first film of the 21st century selected to the list.
It has been hailed by J. Hoberman as" the most widely praised American avant- garde film of the" fin de siècle
The director Errol Morris reportedly commented while viewing" Decasia" that" This may be the greatest movie ever made".
The film was originally commissioned by the Basel Sinfonietta to be shown on three screens surrounding the audience, behind which 55 musicians performed Michael Gordon's score.
In 2011," Spark of Being", a collaboration with composer/ trumpeter Dave Douglas, won The Douglas Edwards Experimental/ Independent Film/ Video Award at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards.
In 2014," The Great Flood", a collaboration with composer/ guitarist Bill Frisell, received the Smithsonian Magazine's American Ingenuity Award for Historical Scholarship.
In 2016 Morrison presented the world premiere of in the Orizzonti section of the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, and the North American premiere at the 54th New York Film Festival.
In 2017, The film was released by Kino Lorber, and was named the best Documentary of 2017 by the Boston Society of Film Critics, was awarded a Critics' Choice Award for Most Innovative Documentary, an International Documentary Association( IDA) Creative Recognition Award for Best Editing, and was included on over 100 critics lists of the best films of 2017.
In 2017 the film was released in Italy by Cineteca di Bologna( as" Dawson City: Il tempo tra i ghiacci"), and in 2019 it was released on DVD and Blu -ray in the UK by Second Run DVD.
Morrison's collected works through 2014 were released as a 5- disc box set from Icarus Films in September 2014, and a 3- disc Blu -ray box set from the British Film Institute in May 2015.
Morrison has occasionally acted in other directors' films, notably Andrew Bujalski's" Mutual Appreciation" and its quasi-sequel" Peoples House".
Claude Weisz
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Dawson City: Frozen Time
Dawson City: Frozen Time is a 2016 American documentary film written, edited and directed by Bill Morrison and produced by Morrison and Madeleine Molyneaux.
It was screened in the Orizzonti Competition section at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival.
It concerns the history of Dawson City, Canada, deep in the Yukon, from its creation during the Klondike Gold Rush and culminating in the 1978 Dawson Film Find — the discovery of 533 silent film reels, thought to be lost, that had been buried in 1929 in a former swimming pool or hockey rink.
Along with the lost films, there was also rare footage of other historic events, including the 1919 World Series.
Her Bitter Cup
Her Bitter Cup( alternate title A Heart's Crucible) is a 1916 American silent film directed by Cleo Madison.
One of only two feature- length films directed by Madison, she also played the leading role, a fervent labor organizer who uses drastic methods to finance her cause of improving the miserable lot of the workers in a factory.
The film is presumed lost.
Sepideh Farsi
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Yolonda Ross
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Jacques Décombe
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Yolanda Burkhard
Yolanda Burkhard, née Giacometto( October 27, 1930 – March 31, 1998) was a Canadian politician, who served as mayor of Dawson City, Yukon from 1976 to 1978.
She was the first woman ever elected mayor of the community; Ione Christensen was elected as the first woman mayor of Whitehorse on the same day.
Born in Switzerland, she was raised there until the death of her father, and then travelled to Dawson City with her mother on what was initially planned as a visit to a family friend.
The family ended up settling in the town, where she married Frank Burkhard in 1951.
In the 1960s and 1970s, she worked as the city clerk for Dawson City's municipal government, until being dismissed from her position by then- mayor Colin Mayes in 1975.
She subsequently worked as a bookkeeper for the local museum, and successfully challenged Mayes in the 1976 municipal election.
In 1977, she took a trip to Bendigo, Victoria, Dawson City's twin town in Australia, to attend the Australian National Gold- Panning Championship.
She stepped down as mayor in 1978, moving to Whitehorse and taking a job with the mining recorder's office, and was succeeded as mayor by Vi Campbell.
She died on March 31, 1998 in Whitehorse.
Following her death, MLA Peter Jenkins gave a tribute speech in the Legislative Assembly of Yukon on April 2.
Fred Roy Krug
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Cleo Madison
Cleo Madison( March 26, 1883 – March 11, 1964) was a theatrical and silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director who worked heavily in early Hollywood in a career spanning from the late 1910s to the mid-1920s.
Madison began her career on the stage.
By 1910, she had begun performing as part of a theatre troupe known as the Santa Barbara Stock Company in California.
In 1913, she was contracted by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company to begin appearing in feature films.
Madison established a name for herself as an actress with performances in films such as" The Trey o' Hearts"( 1914).
She is also considered a pioneering female director with a number of shorts and two feature films," A Soul Enslaved"( 1916) and" Her Bitter Cup"( 1916), to her credit.
She made several efforts to set up a production company before leaving show business in 1924.
She died from a heart- attack in 1964 at the age of 80.

Question: Which film has the director born earlier, Her Bitter Cup or Dawson City: Frozen Time?
Answer: Her Bitter Cup