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Bill Morrison's experimental feature Decasia is composed entirely of decaying, nitrate-based archival footage which seems to melt, burn, drip and deteriorate before our very eyes.In his search for striking examples of emulsion deterioration, Morrison examined close to a thousand archive prints from numerous collections. But Decasia does more than merely celebrate the psychedelic beauty of decay, as Morrison has deliberately chosen images which seem to push back against their own physical disintegration. In his own words:I was clearly drawn to those images where there was a dialogue between the image and the film stock it was printed on...examples of man defying his own mortality as in religious acts, or death-defying or heroic acts. The deterioration of the film seemed to belie the images portrayed on it.This inspiring, haunting tapestry of long lost, partially erased images - nuns leading a slow-moving cortge of schoolchildren, the rescue of a man from drowning, a boxer relentlessly targeting his mysteriously obliterated opponent - testifies not only to the fragile nature of film but to the transience of all human endeavour.Set to an eerie symphonic score by Michael Gordon which has been likened to the sound of a plane crashing in slow motion, Decasia reminds us, as Morrison himself puts it, of the many dreams we forget upon waking.The film Decasia was originally created as part of Ridge Theater's live, multimedia theatricalisation of composer Michael Gordon's symphony Decasia. Amongst the archives in which footage was found were George Eastman House, Museum of Modern Art - Dept of Film and Media, University of South Carolina Newsfilm Library and the United States of America Library of Congress.An acclaimed hit on the international festival circuit in 2002/2003, the film was acquired for UK distribution by the BFI and opened to critical acclaim at Tate Modern as part of the continuing BFI & Tate partnership. ExtrasAudio interview with Bill Morrison and Michael Gordon (http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_157.html)