Decasia: Excerpt Three (Bill Morrison, 2002)

Excerpt from “Decasia,“ assembled by Bill Morrison (2002). Music composed by Michael Gordon. “Decasia“ is a 2002 American found footage film by Bill Morrison, featuring an original score by Michael Gordon. The film is a meditation on old, decaying silent films. It begins and ends with scenes of a dervish and is bookended with old footage showing how film is processed. Nothing was done to accelerate the decomposition of the actual film prints, some of which were copied from the University of South Carolina’