I want to alert everyone that a program of Bill Morrison's films will be showing at the Film Forum beginning February 8. It will begin with three of the experimental filmmaker's shorts, The Film of Her (1996), Outerborough (2005), and Release (2010), and end with the new 52-minuteThe Miners' Hymns, an elegiac tribute to the once thriving coal industry and community in Northeast England. As with The Artist, there is no talking, just music provided by avant-garde Icelandic composter Johann Johannsson, and marvelous and haunting black-and-white footage and images preserved by the British National Film Archives and unearthed by Morrison. I saw The Miners' Hymns at the 2011 Tribecca Film Festival and did the following interview with the acclaimed filmmaker.
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