Vidiots is excited to welcome visionary and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Bill Morrison for a screening of his monumental film Decasia with a conversation to follow.

A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival film footage and set to an original symphonic score. 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.

“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 pure poetry of deliquescence. The images are at once haunting, mysterious and incredibly beautiful. A definitive work of art. And a new kind of documentary. A documentary documenting the decay of itself.”

– Errol Morris, filmmaker

Remix the Archive is a collaborative series with Vidiots and Media Arts & Culture Department at Occidental College, highlighting media centered on the reuse and recontextualization of archival film.