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Decasia

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Bill Morrison presents a compilation of film stock accompanied by an orchestral score.

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J. R. Jones Chicago Reader 07/02/2022
At times it threatens to contract into an artifact of academic obsession, but the more expansive passages connote an epic struggle between the human need to create history and the power of time and entropy to erase it. Go to Full Review
Tony Rayns Sight & Sound 12/02/2003
By presenting images that are in advanced stages of decomposition Morrison is agitating in the most powerful way on behalf of the archives fighting to rescue their holdings from disintegration. Go to Full Review
Jamie Russell BBC.com 09/30/2003
4/5
A mesmerising meditation on life, death and cinema that recalls the heyday of the 60s avant-garde. Go to Full Review
Film Threat 12/06/2005
0.5/5
Bill Gibron DVDTalk.com 08/30/2005
3.5/5
As a musical piece, it is...able to convey mixed emotions within a very dissonant setting. But the film that goes along with it has a harder time selling its sense of self. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 01/01/2004
B
It's for those who like curio films. Go to Full Review
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david f 08/25/2022 A beautiful work of art, based on decaying old film with a lovely soundtrack. See more 05/07/2016 Great score but otherwise extremely slow and dull and it made its point in the first 10 minutes. See more 12/27/2013 Decasia is an interesting concept. Take a large batch of decayed film and play it with all the phantoms created through time with appropriate music. The music chosen however doesn't change substantially throughout the production and as a result, you get repetition and boredom. It's kind of like an art gallery exhibit that you find fascinating..for two minutes. See more 12/27/2011 I like to listen to ambient music over this instead of the score. See more 04/22/2010 i need to watch this again See more 11/25/2009 Felt like the arrangement of the images contained no point or emotion. I feel that the music was overpowering the images which generally were neutral. The whole piece only had one mood, and it was anxious with the music but the images varied from peaceful to reflective, to harsh and ugly, to angry. I mean, this got awards? They put it in museums. I guess I can justify the repetitiveness because in a museum you wouldn't stand there watching for an hour, maybe just a minuet like when you look at paintings, so that's why it's repetitive. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Bill Morrison presents a compilation of film stock accompanied by an orchestral score.
Director
Bill Morrison
Producer
Bill Morrison
Screenwriter
Bill Morrison
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 27, 2016
Runtime
1h 10m
Sound Mix
Surround