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

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

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.

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

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

Apologies for the sound quality of this one.

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

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

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

the method that you used to make films.

And how has that changed over the years?

So, yeah, how did I get here?

Not sure exactly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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