Bill Morrison’s Decasia
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Bill Morrison is not the first artist to take decomposing film stock as raw material, but he plunges into this dark nitrate of the soul with contagious abandon. Founded on the tension between the hard fact of film’s stained, eroded, unstable surface and the fragile nature of that which was once photographically represented, Decasia is an avant-garde movie with universal appeal, as well as an apocalyptic subtext unavoidably tied to the catastrophe of 9-11
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Ten:
Abbas Kiarostami’s most form-minded experiment since his hall-of-mirrors staged doc Close-Up is another small triumph for DV. Truly operating in the gap between fiction and documentary, Ten is a superb conceptual adventure, establishing the director as one of the few filmmakers since Andy Warhol to rethink the nature of on-screen acting.
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