The Miners' Hymns

We open a small retrospective of Bill Morrison’s work with this beautiful patchwork of footage from north-east England, mapping out the rise and fall of the region’s mining industry.

A small retrospective of Bill Morrison’s work opens with this beautiful patchwork of footage from north-east England, mapping the rise and fall of the region’s mining industry. Along with the spectacular underground ‘black gold’ sequences that you’d expect, there is pageantry and riot police, and threaded through it a rousing, plaintive brass score by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson. Screening with Just Ancient Loops (2012, 25 mins) a survey of the heavens created by Morrison in collaboration with cellist Maya Beiser and composer Michael Harrison.