Often compared to Stan Brakhage, Bill Morrison created DECASIA entirely with decaying, old found footage, melded to the music of Bang on a Can's Michael Gordon, performed by the 55 piece basel sinfonietta. The result is a delirium of deteriorated film stock, a moving avant-garde masterpiece that leaves its meaning open to interpretation and, most importantly, your imagination.

"Bill Morrison's DECASIA is that rare thing: a movie with avant-garde and universal appeal.... Morrison is not the first artist to take decomposing film stock as his raw material, but he plunges into this dark nitrate of the soul with contagious abandon...The film is a fierce dance of destruction. Its flame-like, roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and gratitude." —J. Hoberman, The Village Voice

"I popped Morrison's video into my VCR and within a few further minutes I found myself completely absorbed, transfixed, a pillow of air lodged in my stilled, open mouth. Now, I'm no particular authority on film, but I do know one-Errol Morris. A short time later, when I happened to be visiting him, I popped the video into his VCR and proceeded to observe as Morrison's film once again began casting its spell. Errol sat drop-jawed: at one point, about halfway through, he stammered, ''This may be the greatest movie ever made." —Lawrence Weschler, The New York Times Magazine

"Compelling and disturbing! Swimming symphonies of baroque beauty emerge from corrosive nitrate disintegration as rockets of annihilation demolish cathedrals of reality." —Kenneth Anger, filmmaker

"A stirring, haunting modern masterpiece...Bill Morrison has created a unique artifact, as enigmatically authoritative as Max Ernst's collage novel "Une Semaine de Bonté." It makes you think of Joseph Cornell's memory boxes, Robert Rauschenberg's time-stuffed assemblages, Anger, Hitchcock. It makes you feel that the art, as opposed to the business, of cinema does have a future - even if it has to be found deep in the past." —Jonathan Jones, The Guardian

2013 DECASIA named to the Library of Congress' National Film Registry

2002 Sundance Film Festival

2002 Rotterdam Film Festival

2002 Ann Arbor Film Festival, The Netherlands

2002 Cleveland Film Festival

2002 Cinema Zed, Belgium

2002 San Francisco Film Festival

2002 Cinema de Balie, The Netherlands

2002 Indie Forum 2002, Seoul, Korea

2002 Sonar 2002, Barcelona, Spain

2002 Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Czech Republic

2002 Jerusalem Film Festival, Israel

2002 Edinburgh Film Festival, Scotland

2002 SeNef Festival, Seoul Korea

2002 Institute of Contemporary Art, London

2002 Athens Film Festival, Greece

2002 Orphan Film Symposium

2002 Leeds Film Festival, UK

2002 Flanders Film Festival, Ghent, Belgium

2002 Denver Film Festival

2002 Viennale, Austria

2002 Three Rivers Film Festival

2002 PEK Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands

2003 Wisconsin Film Festival

2003 Images Festival, Toronto, Canada

2003 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

2003 Istanbul Film Festival, Turkey

2003 Singapore Film Festival

2003 Independent Film Festival of Boston

2003 New Horizons Film Festival, Poland

2003 Brisbane Film Festival, Australia

2003 Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina

2003 Olympia Film Festival

2003 Pordenone Silent Film Festival, Italy