Bill Morrison

Filmmaker and former SVAD visiting professor Bill Morrison gave a talk at the School of Visual Art and Design and screened his film, The Great Flood, at The Nickelodeon Theater as part of UofSC Libraries Moving Image Research Collections' celebration of the centennial of the first Fox newsreel.

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 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)

Lecture: September 16, 2:00PM, McMaster Gallery, 1st Floor of the School of Visual Art and Design (McMaster College, 1615 Senate Street). Free and open to the public.

Film Screening: September 16, 6:00 PM, The Nickelodeon Theater, 1607 Main Street. Free (tickets required): http://nickelodeon.org/films/the-great-flood/