David Lang

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective (Деревенский детектив), a 1969 Soviet film—, caught in the nets of an Icelandic trawler, is the first step in a fascinating journey through the artistic life of film and stage actor Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov (1899-1981), icon and star of an entire era of Russian cinema.

Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Pawns of Passion (1928).

Estado de Montana, años 1960. Un niño ve cómo el matrimonio de sus padres se derrumba cuando su madre encuentra a otro hombre... Basada en la novela de Richard Ford.

Fred Ballinger (Michael Caine), un gran director de orquesta, pasa unas vacaciones en un hotel de los Alpes con su hija Lena y su amigo Mick, un director de cine al que le cuesta acabar su última película. Fred hace tiempo que ha renunciado a su carrera musical, pero hay alguien que quiere que vuelva a trabajar; desde Londres llega un emisario de la reina Isabel, que debe convencerlo para dirigir un concierto en el Palacio de Buckingham, con motivo del cumpleaños del príncipe Felipe.

In 1924, Jewish tradesmen in the newly-formed Soviet Union relocated to the Ukraine, Belarus and Crimea to form farming colonies. The film is of a tour to survey the so-called “Agro-Joint colonies” by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, shot during one week in May 1927 by Bill Morrison’s grandfather, James H. Becker.

Divided into three sections, Bill Morrison's The Highwater Trilogy examines our relationship to the threat of natural disaster by combining archival footage of icebergs, hurricanes, and floods with a soundtrack by David Lang and Michael Gordon.

Calligraphy on water. The first joint work of director Peter Greenaway and composer David Lang.