This programme features films by US independent filmmaker Bill Morrison, presenting three decades of his work, with a particular focus on how the culture of the moving image has changed from the emergence of cinema in the 19th century to the astronomical or police body cameras and their recordings today. The programme opens with Traces (1992) – a brief cinematic elegy in which the most famous lion of cinema disappears from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer shutter in the same way as unknown faces or sounds disappear from the tape. "Just Ancient Loops (2012) is a somewhat ironic meditation on how the cinematic eye saw the sky when people wanted to see an eclipse, telescopes filmed astronomical bodies or silent cinema saw the rapture. "Who by Water (2008) assembles people on a boat trip looking directly at us: their roles, their awkwardness and their perception of themselves as fit for the camera. 'The Replacement News' (2021) investigates an episode in the history of racism in the US, showing what and how cinema in the 1920s saw and recorded. Incident (2023), based on footage gathered by the Forensic Architecture team from street surveillance and police body cameras, simultaneously reconstructs the 2018 incident in which Chicago cops killed a black passer-by, and reflects on our altered, multiscreen perception of moving images. Bill Morrison is an American filmmaker who has been called "the poetic laureate of lost films" (The New York Times, 2021) for making films that reinterpret long-forgotten moving images. Bill Morrison is renowned and widely acclaimed for his innovative approach to filmmaking, particularly his use of disintegrated and archival footage. N-16 Curated by Natalija Arlauskaitė, professor, researcher in visuality and film. Pėdsakai / Footprints Dir. Bill Morrison / documentary / USA / 1992 / 7 min. The evolution of cinema as the evolution of modern man (and vice versa). Viso labo senovinės loops / Just Ancient Loops Dir. Bill Morrison / documentary / USA / 2012 / 25 min. In this film, Bill Morrison uses high-resolution scans of ancient nitrocellulose film and newly computer-generated images to convey different visions of paradise. Michael Harrison's original soundtrack is performed by the great cellist Maya Beiser. Who Travels By Water Dir. Bill Morrison / documentary / USA / 2008 / 18 min. "Who By Water is based on archive footage of the ship's passengers, wordlessly gazing into the camera lens through a veil of disappearing emulsion. We explore these anonymous faces: rich, poor, young, old, famous or casual. Looking at them, we reflect on our own destiny. Buried News Directed by. Bill Morrison / documentary / USA / 2021 / 12 min. In 1929, in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, a bank manager buried hundreds of reels of silent film in a defunct swimming pool to safely dispose of them. In 1978, 49 years later, a construction crew unearthed the reels and the collection of silent films became known as the Doson Film Find. Among the 533 reels that were eventually restored were 114 newsreels, each containing 5-6 separate news reports of about one minute each. Incident Dir. Bill Morrison / documentary / USA / 2023 / 30 min. 2018 m. The Chicago shootout with the police and the events that followed are re-created from different points of view, using footage from surveillance, security, body cameras and in-car video recorders.