In a vortex where time and space, decay and the reality of what a fantastical dream may be, Bill Morrison's "Decasia" has captured the vintage- weathered look of film to a new extreme of innovation. Scary, yet set in a reality generation forgotten, Decasia captures the images of ages past that have literally rotted away to leave only the tatters of what the film used to be.The images become liquified in an odd embrace to the art of film that distorts the story and film into fantastical, yet decrepit and frightening memories of what had been.
Morrison plays on the notion of the decayed coming back to life- being what had once been back into the public eye for what they had originally been and reenergizing the film in such a way that it becomes a sort of "Frankenstein"-esque movie of pieces sewn together to form a new life form. Throughout some of his films, he has a scene of a literal birth of a child, or at least an implication of such. Paradoxed with what he tries to bring about and give life back into his films, these flashing images of birth and death of the film through decay create a vortex for which time and space collide within his films... A horridly fantastic ways of pushing the envelope of what his medium can do.
So here's to Morrison, the Doctor Frankenstein of modern film. Well done. :)
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