Decasia

Name: Decasia
Genre: Documentary
Released: March 19, 2003
Duration: 70 min
Rating: 67

2003

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Other Cinema Digital (OCD) | Release Date: March 19, 2003

Summary: This experimental film depicts man's struggle to transcend his own mortality.

Director: Bill Morrison

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 70 min

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J. Hoberman

A fierce dance of destruction. Its flame-like, roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and gratitude. Read full review

Anita Gates

Nothing more -- and nothing less -- than a collage of decaying, decomposing nitrate film stock...The unexpected thing is that its dying, in this shower of black-and-white psychedelia, is quite beautiful. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

A fantastic symphony of decay (Decay + Fantasia = Decasia), simultaneously heartbreakingly beautiful and exquisitely sad, pieced together from snippets of old films on the verge of oblivion. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

The film asks us to embrace not only the death of beauty but the beauty of death. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Lacking any obvious thematic or emotional arc, compilation pic succeeds as a pure exercise in visual stimulus, its narcotic effect much amplified by Michael Gordon's thunderous, dissonant orchestral score. Read full review

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. Read full review

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LucioF.

May 7, 2007

An interesting exercise that certainly has its moments of haunting beauty: unfortunately those moments are rare and of no great intensity. At 30', the collage would have been memorable. At 70', it's just boring and pretentious. 2/10

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