Tributes Pulse

TributesPulse is a collaboration between American filmmaker Bill Morrison and Danish composer and percussionist Simon Christensen Christensen originally conceived of the project as a tribute to four American composers Charles Ives 18741954 Conlon Nancarrow 19121997 Steve Reich b 1936 and Trent Reznor b 1965 Using exquisitely deteriorating nitratebased archival film Morrison weaves a story from the remnants of disparate narratives The episodes appear intermittently between the undulating pulse of the films decay the imagery compromised yet made all the more poignant by a dying celluloid medium a rusted vessel carrying ghosts Contrasting with the previous three sections the final section is an original singletake contemporary aerial shot of the Graveyard of Ships off of Staten Island NY Written by Anonymous