For this issue of FGWL, we’re delighted to present Sunken Films, a new short by Bill Morrison. A haunting submersion in recovered images, Sunken Films adds to Bill's substantial body of work drawing on rare archival footage to reframe long-forgotten and sometimes deteriorated imagery as part of a collective mythology.

Bill Morrison's Decasia (2002) was the first film of the twenty-first century to be selected to the Library of Congress's National Film Registry. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017) was named to multiple critics' lists of the best films of the decade. His forthcoming feature, The Village Detective, examines the life and times of the Soviet actor Mikhail Zharov, and the tensions, contradictions, iconography, and mythology of Soviet-era cinema. Among other honors, Bill's work has been recognized with awards from Creative Capital and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a Guggenheim fellowship, and, in 2014, a mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.