Hypnotic Pictures Movies

The true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s to 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until being discovered buried in a su...

A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.

Made by re-editing a deteriorated nitrate print of The Bells (1926),starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff, this work shows the fragility of the...

Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Pawns of Passion (1928).

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective (Дереве...

A woman attends a party where she is observed by and finally meets a mysterious guest.

In 1899, a photographer at American Mutoscope & Biograph mounted his camera on the front of a trolley traveling over the Brooklyn Bridge. The three 90...

Frequent Kronos collaborator Bill Morrison uses rare, early-20th century news footage to uncover ways that narratives about race have been used in the...

Drawing from Portugal’s rich heritage of shipping, trade, and exploration, “The Dockworker's Dream” takes the viewer on a journey downriver, into port...

Singer-songwriter Slink Moss plays the mysterious driver of a Cadillac hearse who journeys across America to pick up and drop off a hitchhiker to his...

Chicago, 2018. A man is killed by police on the street. Through a composite montage of images from surveillance and security footage as well as police...