[Rumori] Decasia

[bt at wfmu.org]

I'm pretty sure the director just collaborated with composer Michael
Gordon on a new film of similar nature (Decasia was 2001); I can't recall
the name, but it's on Nonesuch Records' site (www.nonesuch.com). Decasia
just came out on DVD (www.plexifilm.com).

Brian


 Yeah, it's GREAT, fantastic, magnifique, and the music is AMAZING!
> Can't wait to see it again!
>
> Satisfied customer,
>
> Vicki
>
> On 6 Apr 2004, at 23:34, Steev Hise wrote:
>
>>
>> A film made from decaying old films, by Bill Morrison. I haven't
>> seen it yet but it sounds amazing. here's a review from the
>> Village Voice:
>>
>>  Bill Morrison is not the first artist to take decomposing film
>> stock as raw material, but he plunges into this dark nitrate of
>> the soul with contagious abandon. Founded on the tension between
>> the hard fact of film's stained, eroded, unstable surface and the
>> fragile nature of that which was once photographically
>> represented, Decasia is an avant-garde movie with universal
>> appeal, as well as an apocalyptic subtext unavoidably tied to the
>> catastrophe of 9-11.
>>
>> website: http://www.decasia.com
>>
>>
>>
>> Steev Hise .  steev at detritus.net . http://detritus.net/steev
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