
Her Violet Kiss. 2021. USA. Directed by Bill Morrison. Music by Michael Montes. 5 min.
The Village Detective: a song cycle. 2021. USA. Written and directed by Bill Morrison. Music by David Lang. In Icelandic, Russian; English subtitles. 81 min.
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In his previous feature, Dawson City: Frozen Time, Bill Morrison explored the material effects of permafrost on reels of nitrate celluloid long buried and forgotten. His latest film, Village Detective: a song cycle, meditates on decay of a more recent vintage—reels of a 1969 Soviet comedy rescued from their own watery grave by Icelandic fishing boats—and on the fleeting fame of Mihail Žarov, a cherished Russian actor, after the collapse of the Soviet empire.