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Decasia
Directed by
Bill Morrison
Not Rated
2002
70m
Documentary
7.1
87%
80%
6.5
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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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Cast of Decasia
Tsuru Aoki
Self - Geisha (archive footage)
Julia Calhoun
Self - Old Angry Woman (archive footage)
William S. Hart
Self - Cowboy (archive footage)
Eddie Lyons
Self - Laughing Clerk (archive footage)
Margaret Cullington
Self - Maggie Jiggs (archive footage)
Marc McDermott
Self - Judge (archive footage)
Mary Pickford
Self (archive footage)
Pearl White
Self - Laughing Woman (archive footage)
Bill Morrison
Director / Writer / Producer / Editor
Jim Finn
Negative Cutter
Scot Olive
Colorist
Michael Gordon
Original Music Composer
Luke DuBois
Sound Designer
Jeff Formosa
Sound Editor
Michael Jordan
Sound Mixer
Decasia Ratings & Reviews
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.
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.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
It's for those who like curio films.
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
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.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
The film is a fierce dance of destruction. Its flame-like, roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and gratitude.
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.
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.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Bill Morrison's Decasia is uncompromising, difficult and unbearably beautiful.
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