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Friday, February 3, 2012

Film Watch Decasia: The State of Decay in Its Entirety

Posted by on Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:53 AM

Bill Morrison’s mesmerizing 2002 film Decasia is now up on YouTube in its 66-minute entirety. Scored by Michael Gordon, Decasia is an artful examination of the process of decay on silent films. The detuned, minimalist music and the evanescent imagery converge (dis)harmoniously to embody the movie’s theme. Decasia is not for the short-attention-spanned nor for those tormented overly much about thoughts of mortality. Everyone else should dig this poetic essay on the gradual erosion of analog culture and the terrible beauty of dissipation.

 

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I love that movie. It makes the loss of film history almost worthwhile. The Dutch film Lyrical Nitrate did much the same thing more than a decade earlier, but it doesn't have the beautiful score.
Posted by ratzkywatzky on February 3, 2012 at 10:14 AM
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It would have been nice to see this in something higher than 360p, or is that just another part in the process of decay?
Posted by Wicked Virgin http://userscripts.org/tags/slog on February 3, 2012 at 1:14 PM

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