The Village Detective
The Village Detective examines the historiography of Russian actor Mikhail Zharov's work on film, a career that included 70 film titles and numerous roles on stage, and spanned the entire Soviet era.
Bill Morrison
Director
Casts & Crew
Mikhail Zharov
Himself (archive footage)
Also Directed by Bill Morrison
Drawing from a passage from the Rosh Hashana Service, “Who shall live, who shall die… who by water, who by fire,” this short film deals with that which has been preordained—a future history that will in time unfold before us as the faces of passengers on a ship forces us to contemplate our own fate.
A collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The Cube.
'Just Ancient Loops' employs high resolution scans of ancient nitrate footage, as well as newly created CGI renderings of space to depict different views of heaven.
Using the discarded, deteriorating remnants from seven silent film titles, filmmaker Bill Morrison braids a story of intertwining love triangles that pivots between the accounts of two women.
This is an excerpt from the 60-minute film commissioned for Conrad Cummings's opera of the same title, which was produced by Ridge Theater and staged at La Mama, NYC, in June, 1992.
A city symphony inspired by New York
The true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s to 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until being discovered buried in a sub-arctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon Territory, in Dawson City, located about 350 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
An adventure from the point of view of a fly.
B/W visualization of the highway during the night.
A short film made during lockdown.
