This Is Not A Fiction Film Festival

Schedule of Events:

7:00 PM: "INCIDENT" / DECASIA
$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Los Feliz 3  | Q&A with filmmaker Bill Morrison!

Los Angeles Premiere of “Incident,” winner of the IDA’s Best Short Documentary of 2023

Co-presented by the International Documentary Association

‘This Is Not A Fiction’ and ‘Bill Morrison: An American Cinematheque Tribute’

“Incident,” 2023, Dir. Bill Morrison, 30 Min, USA

Morrison reconstructs a 2018 police shooting in Chicago, reassembling the event and its immediate aftermath from a variety of sources, including surveillance, CCTV, dashboard, and body-worn cameras, as a synchronized split-screen montage.

FORMAT: DCP

DECASIA, 2003, Dir. Bill Morrison, 67 Min, Icarus Films, USA

Bill Morrison’s personal 35mm print

Often compared to Stan Brakhage, Bill Morrison created DECASIA entirely with decaying, old found footage, melded to the music of Bang on a Can’s Michael Gordon, performed by the 55 piece Basel Sinfonietta. The result is a delirium of deteriorated film stock, a moving avant-garde masterpiece that leaves its meaning open to interpretation and, most importantly, your imagination.

FORMAT: 35mm

10:00 PM: DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME
$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Los Feliz 3  | Introduction by filmmaker Bill Morrison

‘This Is Not A Fiction’ and ‘Bill Morrison: An American Cinematheque Tribute’

This meditation on cinema’s past from director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brought 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. The films were seldom, if ever, returned. The now-famous Dawson City Collection was uncovered in 1978 when a bulldozer working its way through a parking lot dug up a horde of film cans. Morrison draws on these permafrost-protected, rare silent films and newsreels, pairing them with archival footage, interviews, historical photographs, and an enigmatic score by Sigur Rós collaborator and composer Alex Somers. DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME depicts the unique history of this Canadian Gold Rush town by chronicling the life cycle of a singular film collection through its exile, burial, rediscovery, and salvation.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

COUNTRY: USA