We waited all day for night to fall, and when it didn't, they screened the film anyway: a documentary on the monochrome.
A silent film made in the early-Soviet style at Proletkult, it opens on what Bill says is a snow covered field in The Ukraine, then pans right to track a genderless figure and their attempt to remain out of frame.
After ten or so minutes it cuts to Malevich's Black Square (1913). But most of us didn't notice, or know this -- it was too bright! Only Bill noticed, or knew this. He had seen the film before, under optimum conditions.
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