{"id":4791,"date":"2010-06-16T22:37:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T02:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=4791"},"modified":"2015-10-20T16:11:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T21:11:38","slug":"decasia-2002-bill-morrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/4791","title":{"rendered":"Decasia (2002, Bill Morrison)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After &#8220;A Bill Morrison film&#8221; it says &#8220;A Michael Gordon symphony&#8221;, assigning auteur credit separately over the soundtrack, a rare thing.  I didn&#8217;t love the symphony, though &#8211; an undertone even more monotonous than Philip Glass with bombs-falling string-sliding atop it.  I enjoyed the bit where percussion chattering along with the background rhythm sounded like an old TV news theme song.  But next time I&#8217;ll just listen to a Pinback album instead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/decasia2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Visuals are exciting, though &#8211; Fragments of narrative films (and science films and home movies and other weirdness) gone Brakhage (or less generously, gone <em>Begotten<\/em>) through decay, slowed down so we can appreciate the distinct frame-by-frame damage.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand what property of film decay causes the picture to go negative, bright whites turning black while the rest of the picture looks unaffected, but I&#8217;ve never much understood the chemical side of film anyway.  Elsewhere, scenes are obscured by dark blots, sunken under oily water and giant amoebas, or just torn to shreds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/decasia4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Forget the Great American Scream Machine &#8211; this is the most terrifying carnival ride.  Each car emerges from a burbling time\/space warp on left side of the frame, to circle around and go back inside.  At the end of the ride, whoever&#8217;s left inside the reality-warp is doomed to spend the rest of their days in a hellish alternate dimension.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/decasia1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Second best part here, a boxer fighting an amorphous column of decay<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/decasia3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After &#8220;A Bill Morrison film&#8221; it says &#8220;A Michael Gordon symphony&#8221;, assigning auteur credit separately over the soundtrack, a rare thing. I didn&#8217;t love the symphony, though &#8211; an undertone even more monotonous than Philip Glass with bombs-falling string-sliding atop it. I enjoyed the bit where percussion chattering along with the background rhythm sounded like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,74,1095,1096],"class_list":["post-4791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-avant-garde","tag-bill-morrison","tag-stock-footage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4791"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10595,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791\/revisions\/10595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}