Decasia
`...composed entirely of decaying, nitrate-based archival footage which seems to melt, burn, drip and deteriorate before our very eyes. In his search for striking examples of emulsion deterioration, Morrison examined close to a thousand archive prints from numerous collections. But Decasis does more than merely celebrate the psychedelic beauty of decay, as Morrison has deliberately chosen images which seem to push back against their own physical disintegartion...
Inspiring and infinitely suggestive, this haunting tapestry of long lost, partially erased images - nuns leading a slow-moving cortege of schoolchildren, the rescue of a man from drowning, a boxer relentlessly targeting his mysteriously obliterated opponent - testifies not only to the fragile nature of film but to the transience of all human endeavour...' [Dust jacket sleeve notes].
Cast & credits
Credits
Direction
- Director Bill Morrison
Production
- ©/Presented by Hypnotic Pictures
- Made poss in pt wth fundg/resrcs prvd by John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
- Made poss in pt wth fundg/resrcs prvd by The MacDowell Colony
- Made poss in pt wth fundg/resrcs prvd by New York Foundation for the Arts
- A project of Creative Capital Foundation
- Producer Bill Morrison
Writing
- Written by Bill Morrison
Editing
- Edited by Bill Morrison
Titles
- Titles/Opticals Heavy Light
Music
- Original Music Composed by Michael Gordon
- Music performed by The basel sinfonietta
- BS (Violins Concert Master) Etienne Abelin
- BS (Violins) Martina Albisetti
- BS (Violins) Katharina Bircher
- BS (Violins) Kristina Camille
- BS (Violins) Tamami Hickel
- BS (Violins) Renate Hofstetter
- BS (Violins) Ursula Levens
- BS (Violins) Vesna Ljubin
- BS (Violins) Sylvia Oelkrug
- BS (Violins) Anke Ohnmacht
- BS (Violins) Claudine Ostermann
- BS (Violins) Karin Wiggli
- BS (Viola) Elisabeth Stähelin
- BS (Viola) Christian Vandersee
- BS (Viola) Christine Wagner-burkardt
- BS (Cello) Catherine Fornallaz
- BS (Cello) Ursula Kamber-schaub
- BS (Cello) Catherine Perron
- BS (Cello) Barbara Weishaupt
- BS (Double Bass) Claudia Brunner
- BS (Double Bass) Andrea Thöny
- BS (Double Bass) Karl-Martin Jäger
- BS (Electric Bass) Lukas Burri
- BS (Saxophone) Dominik Kessler
- BS (Saxophone) Christian Kobi
- BS (Flute) Regula Bernath
- BS (Flute) Julian Cawdrey
- BS (Flute) Barbara Grünig
- BS (Oboe) Deborah Klein
- BS (Oboe) Peter Vögeli
- BS (Oboe) Judith Wenziker
- BS (Clarinets) Hanna Langmeier
- BS (Clarinets) Hanspeter Muri
- BS (Clarinets) Guido Stier
- BS (Contra Bassoon) Cordula Dietrich
- BS (Contra Bassoon) Marc Kilchenmann
- BS (Horns) Stephan Bühlmann
- BS (Horns) Mark Gebhard
- BS (Trumpets) Sebastian Baumann
- BS (Trumpets) Stefan Jourdan
- BS (Trumpets) Ruedi Linder
- BS (Trumpets) Lukas Merki
- BS (Trombones) Anita Kuster
- BS (Trombones) Martin Meier
- BS (Trombones) Thomas Nidecker
- BS (Trombones) Linda Pearse
- BS (Tuba) Helena Berglund
- BS (Tuba) Jörgen Welander
- BS (Electric Guitar) James Woodrow
- BS (Keyboards) Michael Arbenz
- BS (Keyboards) Daniele Pintaudi
- BS (Keyboards) Gabriel Walter
- BS (Keyboards) Samuel Wettstein
- BS (Percussion) Natalie Dietrich
- BS (Percussion) Susanne Palmer
- Conductor Kasper de Roo
- Managing Producer for the basel sinf'tta Numa Bischof
- Live Recording Produced by Andreas Werner
Sound
- [Music] Recording Engineered by Jakob Händel
- Sound Design Norbert Ommer
- Sound Designer for Dolby SRD Mix Jeff Formosa
- Mixed for Dolby SRD by Michael Jordan
Consultant
- Ridge Th Live Event (Director) Bob Mcgrath
- Commissioned/Produced/Presented by Europäischer Musikmonat
- Commissioned/Produced/Presented by The basel sinfonietta
- Ridge Th Live Event (Producer) Daniel Zippi
- Ridge Th Live Event (Stage Manager) Judy Tucker
- Ridge Th Live Event (Lighting Design) Richard Hoyes
- Ridge Th Live Event (Set Design) Jim Findlay
- Ridge Th Live Event (Costume Design) Rachel Comey
- Ridge Th Live Event (Slide Projections) Laurie Olinder
- Ridge Th Live Event (Projection Technic) Colin Hodges