Decasia
Region 1 DVD
Directed by	Bill Morrison
Produced by	Bill Morrison Europäicher Musikmonat Daniel Zippi
Written by	Bill Morrison
Music by	Michael Gordon
Editing by	Bill Morrison
Release date(s)	January, 2002
Running time	70 min.
Country	USA
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Decasia is a 2002 found footage film by Bill Morrison, featuring an original score by Michael Gordon. The film is a meditation on old, decaying silent films and is similar in spirit to Lyrical Nitrate. It begins and ends with scenes of a dervish and is bookended with old footage showing how film is processed. Some of the deterioration was enhanced with computers to create more meaningful abstract imagery in the manner of Stan Brakhage. Nothing was done to the actual film prints, most of which were borrowed from facilities such as the Museum of Modern Art, to accelerate their decomposition. The following is an excerpt of the article entitled DVD. For the sake of convenience, the terms Region 0, Region 1, Region 2, Region 3, Region 4, Region 5, Region 6, Region 7 and Region 8 redirect to this page. ... Michael Gordon (born 20 July 1956) is an American classical composer and a co-founder of Bang on a Can with Julia Wolfe and David Lang. ... January is the first month of the year and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Found footage is a filmmaking term which describes a method of compiling films partly or entirely of footage which has not been created by the filmmaker, and changing its meaning by putting it into a new context. ... Michael Gordon was born in Florida in 1956 and grew up in Nicaragua and an Eastern European community in a jungle on the outskirts of Managua. ... A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) Stan Brakhage (January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003) was an American filmmaker. ... View across garden, in new MoMA building by Yoshio Taniguchi. ...

The film's musical soundtrack features several detuned pianos and an orchestra playing out of phase with itself, adding to the fractured and decomposing nature of the film.

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