Double Bill: Bill Frisell & Bill Morrison
Pricing: $20 Student, $39 Advance, $49 Week of, $69 Preferred
For over thirty years, Bill Frisell’s music and Bill Morrison’s films have fed off each other. Now the longtime friends settle into a MASS MoCA residency to dream up a brand-new program.
Their collaborations include The Film of Her (1996), The Mesmerist (2002), The Great Flood (2014), and Electricity (2018), and their recent program Double Bill pairs short films by Morrison with scores by Frisell, performed at venues including Roulette Intermedium and Big Ears Festival. The two first met in the early 1990s at New York’s Village Vanguard, with Frisell onstage and Morrison washing dishes in the kitchen.
Digging into their archives, they’ll create a new program for Frisell’s string ensemble: Frisell, guitar; Jenny Scheinman, violin; Eyvind Kang, viola; and Hank Roberts, cello.
About the Artists:
Bill Frisell is a guitarist and composer whose career has spanned more than 40 years and many celebrated recordings, including recent Blue Note releases such as HARMONY, Valentine, and In My Dreams. Hailed by The New York Times as one of the most distinctive and original improvising guitarists of our time, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist in 2012 and was the beneficiary of the first FreshGrass Composition commission in 2016.
Bill Morrison has been called “the poet laureate of lost films” by The New York Times for making films that reframe long-forgotten moving images. He is best known for Decasia (2002), Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016), the Oscar-nominated short Incident (2023), and his latest, Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon (2026), won Best International Short at Film Fest Gent. He is also a projection designer for composers including John Adams, Steve Reich, and Frisell.