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The Projection Booth Podcast

Special Report: Bill Morrison on Let Me Come In

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8686 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison discusses his latest work, Let Me Come In, which is part of the 2021 TCM Classic Film Festival.
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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:04.4

Hey, folks, welcome to a special episode of The Projection Booth.

0:07.6

This is your host, Mike White, and today it's a very quick talk, just about the length of his latest movie.

0:15.6

It's a quick talk with Bill Morrison about his latest movie, Let Me Come In, which is playing at the TCM Classic Film Festival 2021.

0:24.1

It takes decaying film reels from the Lost German Silent Film, Pawns of Passion, and combines

0:30.9

it with music from composer David Lang with the soprano Angel Blue.

0:37.0

Apologies for the sound quality of this one.

0:39.2

Get some barking dogs, maybe some dishes being put away, that kind of stuff.

0:43.1

But hey, it was great talking with Mr. Morrison, and hopefully we'll speak again.

0:47.1

I do want to ask you a little bit about your history, and I'm so curious how you came to

0:52.7

the method that you used to make films.

0:55.2

And how has that changed over the years?

0:57.3

So, yeah, how did I get here?

0:59.5

Not sure exactly.

1:01.0

I know, you know, I started out in painting.

1:04.1

And I often say that, you know, the search for decaying film was in some ways a way of trying to replicate the plastic arts on

1:13.5

on film and i was talked by the great animator robert breer who introduced me to stan brackage and

1:20.1

you know ken jacobs and you know paul sheritz and len lie and all the great avant-garde filmmakers of the 50s and 60s, the heavy

1:30.5

hitters. And so, you know, I tried my hand in animation. I quickly realized how time-consuming and

1:38.2

laborious that was. And the more laborious it was, the worse it looked. So I was looking for a way to have the effect of animation

1:47.3

or have the effect of seeing many different paintings flitter by your eyeball without it being

1:53.6

always obvious that an artist's hand was behind each one of those and that became sort of heavy

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