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A film-music collaboration between acclaimed filmmaker Bill Morrison (DECASIA, THE MINERS’ HYMNS) and Grammy-winning jazz guitarist Bill Frisell, THE GREAT FLOOD is based on, and inspired by, the catastrophic Mississippi River Flood of 1927 and the ensuing transformation of Ameri-can society. Part of the floods enduring legacy was the mass exodus of displaced sharecroppers. Musically, the “Great Migration” of rural southern blacks to Northern cities saw the Delta Blues electrified and reinterpreted as the Chicago Blues, Rhythm and Blues, and Rock and Roll.

Film By Bill Morrison Music By Bill Frisell

The

Great Flood

national art-house release in 50 cities!

“Extraordinary!”—The Telegraph

THE GREAT FLOODA film by Bill Morrison | Music by Bill Frisell

80 minutes / B&W / 2013 / 4:3An Icarus Films Release

© 2013 Hypnotic Picturess

UPC # 8-54565-00166-4 / SRP: $24.98

Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall

New York

Symphony Hall Chicago

Queen Elizabeth Hall london

royce Halllos angeles

“Cinema as art, and a classic!”—la WeeklY

“archival wizard Bill Morrison’s filmfinds lyricism in disaster.”

—The Wall STreeT JourNal

“Hypnotic, playful, wildly evocative...a terrific achievement.”

—loS aNgeleS TimeS

“HHHH!”—Time ouT NeW York

“a rEMarkaBlE work!”—The SeaTTle TimeS

“ViSual PoEtry…CritiC’S PiCk!”—The NeW York TimeS

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