Decasia
| Decasia | |
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 Region 1 DVD | |
| Directed by | Bill Morrison |
| Produced by |
Bill Morrison Europäischer Musikmonat Daniel Zippi |
| Written by | Bill Morrison |
| Music by | Michael Gordon |
| Edited by | Bill Morrison |
Release dates |
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Running time | 67 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | no dialogue |
Decasia is a 2002 American found footage film by Bill Morrison, featuring an original score by Michael Gordon. The film is a meditation on old, decaying silent films. It begins and ends with scenes of a dervish and is bookended with old footage showing how film is processed. Nothing was done to accelerate the decomposition of the actual film prints, some of which were copied from the University of South Carolina's Moving Image Research Collections.[1]
The film's musical soundtrack features several detuned pianos and an orchestra playing out of phase with itself, adding to the fractured and decomposing nature of the film.
Two films have been positively identified: J. Farrell MacDonald's The Last Egyptian (1914), written, produced, and based on the novel by L. Frank Baum, and William S. Hart's Truthful Tulliver (1916).
In 2013, Decasia was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry. It was the first film from the 21st century to be selected.[2] Decasia was included in the September 2014 box set release of Bill Morrison's collected works, from Icarus Films.[3]
References
- ↑ Morrison, Bill. "Portrait of Decay: Bill Morrison on Decasia". Retrieved 5 May 2013.
- ↑ "Library of Congress announces 2013 National Film Registry selections" (Press release). Washington Post. December 18, 2013. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ "Amazon.com: Bill Morrison: Collected Works (1996 - 2013): Vijay Iyer, Johann Johannsson, Michael Gordon, Bill Frisell, Bill Morrison: Movies & TV".
External links
- Decasia
- Decasia at the Internet Movie Database
- Decasia at AllMovie