Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Trailer for SAWYER AVENUE, SUNDAY AFTERNOON (18’, 2026) 021
Reposted by Bill MorrisonThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 23/07/2026In the documentary short “Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon,” body-cam and bystander footage examine a confrontation between residents and federal agents. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...newyorker.comInside an Immigration Arrest That Sparked a Neighborhood ProtestIn the documentary short “Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon,” body-cam and bystander footage examine a confrontation between residents and federal agents. 01914
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 30/07/2026My new short film “Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon” (18’, 2026) may now be viewed via @newyorker.com Produced with @invisible.institute 121
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 07/04/2026blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/06/l...blockclubchicago.orgLawsuit Over 2018 Police Killing Of South Shore Barber Will Get New TrialHarith 'Snoop' Augustus was fatally shot five times by a Chicago police officer. A new trial has been ordered in a lawsuit brought by his mom after judges found city lawyers improperly removed two Bla... 010
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 06/11/2025I will be in conversation with Maciej Drygas after a screening of his award winning film TRAINS Pociągi / Trains/ Drygas Film Production Tribeca Screening Room 375 Greenwich Street #2, NYC Saturday 8 November- 3:00pm FREE reserve tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/trains-by-...eventbrite.comTRAINS by MACIEJ DRYGAS - Screening and DiscussionDiscussion between filmmakers Maciej Drygas and Bill Morrison to follow the screening. 120
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 03/10/2025THE VANGUARD TAPES Screening Sat 10/4 at 2:30pm at Immersion Room, 70 Washington Sq South, 7th floor. Q&A with Ben Ratliff DM me for more info! 010
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Dawson City: Frozen Time will screen as past of IFC Center’s 20 for 20 series: SAT SEP 27 - 1:10pm TUE SEP 30 - 6:55pm w Q&A WED OCT 1 - 1:40pm www.ifccenter.com/films/dawson... Hope to see some of you there!ifccenter.comIFC Center - Dawson City: Frozen TimeTuesday, September 30 at 6:55: Q&A with director Bill Morrison after the screening Bill Morrison (Decasia, The Great Flood) pieces together the bizarre history of a collection of 500 films from the 19... 020
Reposted by Bill MorrisonThe Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 15/08/2025Ari Aster's Eddington on digital, Bill Morrison's Dawson City: Frozen Time on Tubi, and more streaming picks of the week.thefilmstage.comNew to Streaming: Eddington, Dawson City: Frozen Time, The Legend of Ochi & MoreEach week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. Dawson City: Frozen Time (... 051
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 28/06/2025GHOST OF THE PAST international premiere today 28.06 at Il Cinema Ritrovato: festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezion...festival.ilcinemaritrovato.itRecovered&Documentaries: Les Mistons/Bobita | Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival 000
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Make no mistake: this bill officially strips the judiciary of whatever teeth it may still have. 020
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 19/05/2025CHICAGO - Free INCIDENT screening Wednesday 21 May at 7:00pm at The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center do312.com/events/2025/...do312.comCommunity Film Screening: Incident at The Dusable Black History Museum and Education ...Check out Community Film Screening: Incident at The Dusable Black History Museum and Education Center in Chicago on May 21, 2025 and get detailed info for the event - tickets, photos, video and review... 011
Reposted by Bill MorrisonInvisible Institute @invisible.institute · 14/05/2025INCIDENT has won the National Magazine Award for video. Join Bill Morrison and Jamie Kalven for a free screening of INCIDENT at the DuSable Black History Museum on Wednesday May 21 at 7:00pm. This screening and conversation is presented by Common Cause. 095
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 04/05/2025darker - LIVE! sunday 4 may - noon BRIC 649 fulton street, brooklyn music by david lang performed by Ensemble Signal film by Bill Morrison Bang on a Can Long Play Festival 2025 bangonacan.org/long-play-20... 051
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Decasia at @bam.org Thursday 24 April 9:15pm www.bam.org/film/2025/tr... 050
Reposted by Bill MorrisonThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 11/04/2025“Incident,” a short documentary directed by Bill Morrison and produced by Jamie Kalven, received the National Magazine Award for video. Rewatch the film, which was also nominated for an Academy Award this year.nyer.cm“Incident” Shows How Officers React When a Police Killing Is Caught on TapeA collection of surveillance and body-camera footage offers a raw look at the 2018 shooting of Harith Augustus, and at the immediate attempts to shape the story. 1114
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 07/04/2025• GHOST OF THE PAST (7’, 2025) Music by @bill.frisell World premiere at @tcmfilmfest Saturday April 26 at 9:00am, preceding a nitrate print screening of DAISY KENYON (99’, 1947) at @egyptianla Hollywood, CA 030
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 29/03/2025On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. app.sosha.ai/s/gLcGiQiVapp.sosha.aiJoin me on April 5th 030
Reposted by Bill MorrisonPatrick Gratton @patgratton.bsky.social · 26/03/2025And the Award for Best Short Film goes to ... Incident – Bill Morrison (Director-Producer); Jamie Kalven (Producer) This is the first win and nomination for Bill Morrison and Jamie Kalven. 131
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 18/03/2025It’s here, people. Protest in the streets every night! protest.one/calendar/protest.oneCalendar – PROTEST_NYC 041
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I wrote a journal piece for @talkhouse.bsky.social outlining my tumultuous and highly itinerant Winter 2025 www.talkhouse.com/a-uniquely-a...talkhouse.comA Uniquely American Story: My Winter 2025Bill Morrison chronicles being an Oscar nominee, the death of his mother and political turmoil at the start of a tumultuous year. 042
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 10/03/2025www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...nbcnews.comDemonstrators to take over NYC's Federal Plaza after Mahmoud Khalil is arrested by ICEThe Columbia University graduate, who helped organize the school’s pro-Palestinian protests, was detained Saturday night and told that his student visa was being revoked, his attorney said. 030
Reposted by Bill MorrisonLongtail News @longtail-news.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Feed: "The Daily Notebook" By: Juan Camilo Velásquez on Thursday, February 20, 2025mubi.comA God’s-Eye MontageIn Bill Morrison’s Oscar-nominated “Incident,” surveillance images approximate omniscience to investigate a police killing. 021
Reposted by Bill MorrisonDirectors Notes @directorsnotes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Filmmaker @billmorrison.bsky.social unveils the power of contemporary archive in Oscar nominated documentary ‘Incident’ - a harrowing exploration of police collusion directorsnotes.com/2025/02/20/b... #filmsky #AcademyAwards #Oscars #Oscars2025 #documentarydirectorsnotes.comIncident by Bill Morrison // Documentary // Directors NotesBill Morrison discusses the defined parameters he adhered to when constructing his haunting Oscar nominated documentary short about a 2018 police shooting. 082
Reposted by Bill MorrisonScott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Today at The Reveal I posted my annual ranked list of the 15 Oscar shorts. An excellent crop of films, by and large, particularly the docs. Bill Morrison's "Incident" is major. thereveal.substack.com/p/worst-to-b...thereveal.substack.comWorst to Best: The 2025 Oscar Shorts NomineesOur annual ranked list may not give you an edge in Oscar pools, but there's still plenty of good films to see here. 4313
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 08/02/2025I find it a bit discouraging that the outgoing message on @Schumer.senate.gov New York office 212-496-4430 announces that his Washington office will be closed from December 23rd, 2024 to January 2nd, 2025 and is not taking incoming messages. 010
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 05/02/2025There will be a free theatrical screening of INCIDENT, presented by The @newyorker.com, with Q&A by me New York - Thurs Feb 6, 7:00pm DCTV’s Firehouse Theater 87 Lafayette Street New York NY 10013 Los Angeles - Tue Feb 10, 7:00pm WME Screening Room 9601 Wilshire Blvd. Beverly Hills, CA 90210 040
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 04/02/2025I was interviewed by Madeleine Brand of @kcrw.com Press Play about my film INCIDENT. I thought it came out well www.kcrw.com/news/shows/p...kcrw.com‘First thing we hear is a lie’: Body cam footage of police shooting of Harith AugustusOscar nominee “Incident” uses police body and dashboard cameras, plus security cameras, to show a multi-angle replay of a Black man dying at the hands of Chicago law enforcement in 2018. 070
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 26/01/2025@newyorker.com released two short films that have been nominated for the @academyawards.bsky.social - INCIDENT (short documentary) and I’M NOT A ROBOT (short live action) 050
Reposted by Bill MorrisonStephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 23/01/2025Now that it has received a well-deserved Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Short, a reminder that @billmorrison.bsky.social's urgent, devastating film INCIDENT is available to stream at @newyorker.com. 18837
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 24/01/2025So honored to have our work recognized among so many deserving films. Thank you! 🙏🏼 0123
Reposted by Bill MorrisonGlenn Charlie Dunks @glenncharliedunks.bsky.social · 23/01/2025So good to see Bill Morrison finally get an Oscar nomination. They’d never nominate one of his nitrate efforts, but INCIDENT is no less a work of Morrison’s eminent style. 032
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Last night we were thrilled that the @NewYorker.com doc INCIDENT won the @cinemaeyehonors.bsky.social award for Best Short Nonfiction Film. There is one more screening of the film this week at @MovingImage.org on Saturday 11 January at 5:00pm. RSVP here: forms.gle/zQgTpEkifRE2... 0114
Reposted by Bill MorrisonPINNLAND EMPIRE @pinnlandempire.bsky.social · 08/01/2025“there was this wonderful moment at the end of the film where it's a depiction of the garden of Eden and Eve gives Adam an apple and the emulsion goes crazy” - Bill Morrison, @takeonecinema.net Lyrical Nitrate/Tributes - Pulse #sidebyside 074
Reposted by Bill MorrisonFilm Spotlight @filmspotlight.org · 08/01/2025Incident + Buried News with Bill Morrison in Person 🎬 Incident + Buried News Sat, Jan 11 at 5:00 PM Museum of the Moving Image In Person: Bill Morrison (Director) #filmskyfilmspotlight.orgIncident + Buried News with Bill Morrison in PersonIncident + Buried News - Museum of the Moving Image 041
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Thrilled that INCIDENT has been shortlisted for the 97th #AcademyAwards in documentary short! Thank you The @NewYorker.com and the @Invisible.Institute Congratulations to all the other films and filmmakers on this list! Five nominees will be announced on January 17… 061
Reposted by Bill MorrisonJoanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Anyone who thinks about police violence/accountability must watch "The Incident" www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW65..., a 30-min doc by @billmorrison.bsky.social from footage of the killing of Harith Augustus by Chicago PD, gathered by Jamie Kalven of @invisible.institute. I can't stop thinking about it.youtube.comHow Police Officers React When a Killing Is Caught on Tape | "Incident" | The New Yorker DocumentaryYouTube video by The New Yorker 1103
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 06/12/2024chicagoreader.com/film/movie-f...chicagoreader.comAn interview with film director Bill Morrison - Chicago ReaderBill Morrison's short film Incident documents the 2018 killing of Harith “Snoop” Augustus by Chicago police. 140
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Award contending short film INCIDENT screening this weekend 12/7 & 12/8 in LA and 12/9 in Chicago, with Q&A by the filmmakers after each screening. DM me if you want to attend! 040
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 01/12/2024I’ll be presenting DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME at Cinematek Brussels tonight Sunday 1 December at 19.00 081
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social · 20/11/2024If you are in or near Venice, Italy on Tuesday 26 November, I’ll have a screening at CZ95 Centro Civico Zittele on Giudecca at 8pm. Light Is Calling (2003) Who By Water (2007) Incident (2023) Stay for the fish soup! 120
