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Known for his hand-in-glove creative collaborations with contemporary composers and his capacity to conduct scraps of archival film as though they were players in a symphony orchestra, Morrison is one of the most lauded experimental filmmakers to emerge in the last 30+ years, with his 2002 Decasia, scored by Michael Gordon and stitched together from corrupted fragments of silent movies, having been proclaimed by critic J. Hoberman as “the most widely praised American avant-garde film of the fin-de-siècle.” See it, along with a choice selection of Morrison’s shorts, including his newest, Incident, and his lyric retelling of the tale of a nitrate film treasure trove’s discovery, Dawson City: Frozen Time, in this tribute to a profound thinker on film, history, and filmed history.