"I popped Morrison's video into my VCR and within a few further minutes, I found myself completely absorbed, transfixed, dumbstruck, a pillow of air lodged in my stilled open mouth, which I don't think I thereupon managed to close for the next seventy minutes."
- Lawrence Weschler, The New York Times Magazine

"This radical, experimental masterwork feels like the first film, and feels like the last film."
- Andrew Lewis Conn, Time Out New York

"Bill Morrison's extraordinarily mesmerizing DECASIA is a stunningly beautiful... ode to creation and decay."
- Shari Frilot, catalog notes for the Sundance Film Festival

"A hallucinatory canvas of images... succeeds as a pure exercise in visual stimulus, its narcotic effect much amplified by Michael Gordon's thunderous, dissonant orchestral score."
- Dennis Harvey, Variety

"Unbearably beautiful. It's a work of suggestive genius."
- Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine

"The majestic DECASIA... stunning work... an ecstatic gesture."
- Steve Seid, Curator, Pacific Film Archive

"A work of nihilistic energy and harsh, uncompromising beauty, capable of sustaining multiple readings and interpretations. It is, in short, a work of real art. There are precedents for this sort of thing but nothing remotely of this scale, much less power. The final coup is a genuinely transformative and unforgettable experience."
- Shane Danielsen, 56th Edinburgh International Film Festival

DECASIA: THE STATE OF DECAY

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