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| Date: | Mar 5, 2019 4:00pm |
| Organized by: | Cimatheque |
| Venue: | Cimatheque |
| Address: | 19A ‘Adly Street Floor 5, Apt. 28, Downtown Cairo, Egypt |
| Admission: | Individual Tickets: 25LE "Dreamers: Counternarratives in Cinema" Program Membership Individual: 300LE Student: 200LE |
| Event Language: | No dialogue |
| Website: | https://www.facebook.com/events/2059882827393968/ |
Found Footage from CMTQ
Duration: 10 min
Decasia
Bill Morrison
United States, 2002
No Dialogue - 67 min
A film collage made up of different footage in various states of decay and set to an experimental orchestral score composed by Michael Gordon, Decasia is an incredibly astute meditation on time and vanishing media. The film is perilously composed entirely of early nitrate footage: the base - cellulose nitrate - was abandoned by filmmakers around 1950, a technical improvement since nitrate film is highly flammable and prone to rot. But Morrison is enthralled by the rot, and the ravages of time that they reveal. Deeply poetic and oddly moving, Decasia powerfully explores the simultaneously grotesque and vulnerable power of film archives.
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Doors close 15 minutes after the start of the screening
