Bill Morrison on The Village Detective: a song cycle

For this episode, we share a conversation between Film/Video Director David Filipi and filmmaker Bill Morrison, who received a Wex Artist Residency Award for his latest project, The Village Detective: a song cycle, a meditation on Soviet cinema and star making built around a print of a 1969 film starring Russian actor Mikhail Zharov that was found a few years ago on the ocean floor off the coast of Iceland. At the Wex for the Columbus premiere of the film, Morrison discusses his previous work, his fascination with degraded film imagery, and how the film’s distinctive accordion score came together.