Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe - Decasia September 10, 2010

Bill Morrison's 'Decasia' was created from his discovery of a trove of old, decaying film stock. Scored by Michael Gordon of Bang on a Can, the movie is an expressionist collage of past images--of dreams, romance, drama, exotic locales and mythic cinema--that have become subverted by the striking visual consequences of the decomposing film: melting, rusted, warped, disintegrating. Perhaps this is really what happened after they rode off into the sunset.