Decasia

Bill Morrison / United States / 2002 / 67 min.

synopsis

Morrison’s emblematic film is a celebration of inevitable decay. A layered collage of archival films damaged with the passage of time. An immersion into the materiality of film and and analytical nostalgia for the undisturbed whole are balanced by tremors of the beauty of pulsing moments doomed to perish in the natural process of degradation.

„Compelling and disturbing! Swimming symphonies of baroque beauty emerge from corrosive nitrate disintegration as rockets of annihilation demolish cathedrals of reality.“ Kenneth Anger