Decasia
Sign in to saveDecasia is a 2002 American collage film by Bill Morrison, featuring an original score by Michael Gordon. In 2013, Decasia was included in the annual selection of 25 motion pictures for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Film · TMDB
6.5A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.
Released: 2002-01-1070 minDir: Bill MorrisonDocumentary
Cast
- Tsuru Aoki as Self - Geisha (archive footage)
- Julia Calhoun as Self - Old Angry Woman (archive footage)
- William S. Hart as Self - Cowboy (archive footage)
- Eddie Lyons as Self - Laughing Clerk (archive footage)
- Margaret Cullington as Self - Maggie Jiggs (archive footage)
- Marc McDermott as Self - Judge (archive footage)
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Ratings · OMDb
IMDb
7.2/10
1,040 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
87%
Metacritic
67/100
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Awards
- 1 win
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Key dates
- Published
- 1 January 2002
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- silent film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Creator
- Bill Morrison
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Director
- Bill Morrison
- Screenwriter
- Bill Morrison
- Composer
- Michael Gordon
- FilmAffinity ID
- 376417
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Decasia is a 2002 American collage film by Bill Morrison, featuring an original score by Michael Gordon. In 2013, Decasia was included in the annual selection of 25 motion pictures for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
==Summary== The film is a meditation on old, decaying silent films, featuring segments of earlier movies re-edited and integrated into a new narrative. Critic Glen Kenny described Decasia as an "abstract narrative about mortality in all of its manifestations."
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2000s avant-garde and experimental films2002 American films2002 filmsAmerican avant-garde and experimental filmsAmerican black-and-white filmsAmerican collage filmsAmerican independent filmsFilms directed by Bill Morrison (director)Non-narrative filmsSurviving American silent filmsTemplate film date with 1 release dateUnited States National Film Registry films