"Decasia" Bill Morrison

Bill Morrison's avant-garde use of aged film can be described in one sense, eerie.  It took me a while to realize why the film was so creepy.  The music definitely helped to distinguish the mood of the piece but there were other elements to support it.  What really got to me was what was actually happening to the film and how it related to the scenes in the film.  The blurs and spots act as being viral, or an infestation. There was a feeling that the characters shown were meeting a grim fate. As if they were dying along with the decay of the film.  Specifically, as if they were apart of an epidemic.  Perhaps, Morrison is trying to make commentary on the death of classic cinema in the new age.