23 dezembro 2002

CULTURAS IN VITRO
Sublime Decay: at one point, about halfway through, he stammered, ''This may be the greatest movie ever made.''
''Made,'' of course, being the operative word. And not exactly by Bill Morrison, either. For, as it turned out, Morrison hadn't shot a single frame in the whole thing. Rather, his film, ''Decasia,'' was fashioned entirely out of snippets of severely distressed and heart-rendingly decomposed nitrate film stock: decades-old footage, taken from archives all around the country - and at the last possible moment.