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Decasia
2003 70m Not Rated
Documentary
7.2
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A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.
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Directed By
Bill Morrison
Written By
Bill Morrison
Studio
Hypnotic Pictures
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Cast of Decasia
Tsuru Aoki
Geisha
Julia Calhoun
Old Angry Woman
Margaret Cullington
Maggie Jiggs
William S. Hart
Cowboy
Eddie Lyons
Laughing Clerk
Marc McDermott
Judge
Mary Pickford
cast
Willie Ritchie
Boxer
Pearl White
Laughing Woman
Decasia Reviews
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
It's for those who like curio films.
Eye for Film
Keith H. Brown
Others, more attuned to the anarchist maxim that 'the urge to destroy is also a creative urge', or more willing to see with their own eyes, will find Morrison's iconoclastic uses of technology to be liberating.
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Simultaneously heartbreakingly beautiful and exquisitely sad.
New York Times
Anita Gates
Decasia is what has happened already to so many silent movies, newsreels and the like. The unexpected thing is that its dying, in this shower of black-and-white psychedelia, is quite beautiful.
Film Threat
Chris Gore
I'm sure the filmmaker would disagree, but, honestly, I don't see the point. It's a visual Rorschach test and I must have failed.
DVDTalk.com
Bill Gibron
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.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Bill Morrison's Decasia is uncompromising, difficult and unbearably beautiful.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
The film is a fierce dance of destruction. Its flame-like, roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and gratitude.
Film Journal International
Eric Monder
Like Brakhage, Morrison contemplates the nature of film itself and, like Conner, he conjures an apocalyptic vision. In Decasia's case, this comes from the deformation, which turns ordinary scenes into horror-movie spectacle. Of course, despite the formal
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
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.
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