Decasia is Bill Morrison's fascinating, expressive film composed of beautifully deteriorated nitrate film stock. Last December, Laurence Wechsler wrote about showing it to Errol Morris: "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.'''
Morrison will be at some Anthology Film Archive screenings. The film's website has a growing schedule of other screenings, including 26 March at Baltimore's Walters Art Museum. Read J. Hoberman's Voice review. Also, buy Decasia on VHS.
Meanwhile, in his short review, the Voice's Dennis Lim guts the Oscar-nominated short films like a Hebrew-speaking carp. Lim's joyless Oscar prediction: "Inja, a pat anti-apartheid parable manipulative enough to enlist a dog and a child." Yikes. What's the endgame for making shorts again??
