Decasia: The State of Decay
Decasia is an experimental feature by director/producer Bill Morrison which sets stunning archival footage to an original symphonic score by Bang On A Can co-founder Michael Gordon. Using nitrate-based master elements with severe emulsion deterioration, Decasia depicts Man’s struggle to transcend his own mortality as the very fabric of his world disintegrates before our eyes.
This film was originally created as part of Ridge Theater's live, multimedia theatricalisation of Michael Gordon's symphony, Decasia. The live event Decasia was commissioned, produced, and presented by the Europäischer Musikmonat and the basel sinfonietta. It premiered in Basel, Switzerland, November 2001. The film version premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002, was subsequently acquired by the Museum of Modern Art and named one of the ten best films of 2003 by J. Hoberman of the Village Voice.
Recent screenings
August 2010 | Festivals in Ukraine
Credits
Written, directed, produced and edited by Bill Morrison
Music composed by Michael Gordon
Production Company: Hypnotic Pictures
Music performed by the basel sinfonietta
Conducted by Kasper de Roo
Funding provided in part by:
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
A project of Creative Capital
A Ridge Theater project
Related links
decasia.com
A Secret Understanding
Genre Collage
Bill Morrison biography
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