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Shown on 35mm:
Decasia
2002 | 67 min | B/W | 35mm
Decasia is an artful collage of found archival footage, all of it shot pre-1950 on a cellulose nitrate base and most of it in advanced stages of decay. The footage is slowed to allow a greater appreciation of the effect and character of the visual damage to the original materials, which include everything from fragments of silent melodramas to ethnographic studies, travelogues, newsreel footage and wildlife documentaries. The material is edited to a modernist symphonic score by Michael Gordon; the aural dissonance complements the visual decay.
Decasia stands against destruction, not for it. Morrison, however, also knows that decay has a beauty all its own. It’s that ambivalence that ultimately makes Decasia so compulsive – Sight And Sound
Decasia is that rare thing: a movie with avant-garde and universal appeal
J Hoberman, Village Voice |
Shown on 35mm:
Light Is Calling
2004 | 8 min | colour |35mm
A meditation on the nature of random collisions, as seen through the roiling emulsion of an ancient film.
Music by Bill Frisell. |
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