
Decasia: The State of Decay
Genres
Overview
A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
70 min
Release Date
2002-01-24
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
24
Vote Average
6.4
0.0
Die Wechsler im Tempel
A visual allusion of the cleansing of the temple to numerous crimes. The film draws an arc from the Crusades to the Holocaust and the Vietnam War.
1966-01-01 | de
6.0
Cotton Mill, Treadmill
Director Denys Arcand made an inquiry on textile industry in Quebec, meeting employers and workers of that industry.
1970-10-13 | fr
5.2
Todo Todo Teros
Basically an artist is also a terrorist, the protagonist thinks in an unguarded moment. And if he is a terrorist after all, then he might just as well be one. Not an instant product, but an experimental feature in which diary material is brought together to form an intriguing puzzle.
2006-08-18 | en
6.8
Running for His Life: The Lawrence Phillips Story
Feature length documentary examining the troubled life and tragic death of college football standout and talented NFL running back Lawrence Phillips, whose scars of childhood abuse and abandonment haunted him throughout his career.
2016-12-16 | en
0.0
Rock Heart Fire
Shot mostly at Uluru, the rock in the heart of Australia. The extreme heat damaged the emulsion of the film which is subsequently incised by the filmmaker. A ceremonial death and rebirth. The soundtrack was made by the Orchestra of Skin and Bone comprising of Ollie Olsen and John Murphy. The aborigines were from Narwietooma Station. 16mm.
1985-01-01 | en
6.7
Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74)
A contemplative, seemingly timeless record of the years Hutton spent in Southeast Asia while working as a merchant seaman. Jon Jost writes, "The film is rich with truly wonderful visions: a thick, white porcelain cup perched on a ship's rail, the tea within swaying gently in sync with the ship while the sea rushes by beyond the faces of crewmen posing awkwardly but also movingly for the camera; a cockfight on ship; scenes from a bucolic pre–Pol Pot Phnom Penh. Images has the haunting elegiac resonance of Eugène Atget's Paris, the echo of a time and place that was." - MoMA
1974-01-01 | en
7.3
Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget
On the island of Tanna, a part of Vanuatu, an archipelago in Melanesia, strange rites are enacted and time passes slowly while the inhabitants await the return of the mysterious John.
2013-07-04 | en
0.0
Ver a Hilda Vera
A living room, two video cameras, an armchair, two televisions and a mirror: domestic daily life in which colleagues, family and friends come together to decipher the life, personality and artistic trajectory of one of the most important actresses of Venezuelan Cinema: Hilda Vera
1998-10-22 | es
0.0
Vues animées de l'Atelier et Collection Richard Winther
An overview of the art collection of Richard Winther.
1958-09-01 | en
0.0
Bullfight
The film evokes all the aspects of bullfighting - its history, the bulls, the toreros, the arena, the audience - and involves numerous matadors from the era.
1951-07-10 | fr
5.7
Chinese Ping-Pong
An experimental sports film made partly during the Scandinavian Open Championships in Halmstad in 1970, partly during the Chinese players' exhibition tour in Denmark immediately after the SOC. First of all, it is a film about their style, about the artistic culmination that is ping-pong at its best, it records China's comeback into the international sports world.
1972-03-22 | en
5.3
The James Dean Story
Released two years after James Dean's death, this documentary chronicles his short life and career via black-and-white still photographs, interviews with the aunt and uncle who raised him, his paternal grandparents, a New York City cabdriver friend, the owner of his favorite Los Angeles restaurant, outtakes from East of Eden, footage of the opening night of Giant, and Dean's ironic PSA for safe driving.
1957-08-13 | en
0.0
Fulano de Tal
| pt
0.0
OLO, the Boy from Tibet
A 6-year-old Tibetan boy leaves his family and flees to a refugee camp in northern India.
2012-06-30 | ja
5.4
Thot-Fal'N
This film describes a psychological state "kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols) of suspension-of-self within consciousness and then that feeling of falling away from conscious thought. The film can only be said to describe or be emblematic of this state because I cannot imagine symbolizing or otherwise representing an equivalent of thoughtlessness itself. Thus the actors in the film, Jane Brakhage, Tom and Gloria Bartek, Williams Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Olovsky and Phillip Whalen are figments of this 'Thought-Fallen Process', as are their images in the film to find themselves being photographed."
1978-06-27 | en
6.0
Ich lebe in der Gegenwart - Versuch über Hans Richter
1973-09-23 | de
0.0
Excelsior
An expedition through the mountains of Nepal, during which 9 peaks are climbed.
1931-03-10 | de
0.0
The Wave
The original classic on video, which introduces Gabrielle Roth's revolutionary system of moving meditation. Teaches how five core rhythms can teach, catalyze, and heal our entire being.
2005-04-12 | en
0.0
Pensando em Pluralidade
2019-06-17 | pt
0.0
Contágio
Several Portuguese creators occupy the director's chair in this collective short film shot during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown in an unfolding of personal perspectives.
2021-01-29 | pt