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How Does Bill Morrison Use The Virtue In Decasia

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While watching Decasia(Bill Morrison, 2002), I understood it as a series of poor images, to the extreme. The footage that was chosen by Bill Morrison was essentially all old celluloid footage, that would have been once clear. But, by the time Morrison made this film, the footage had decayed and became deteriorated over time, which resulted in a change in the appearance of the footage. The footage is now grainy, spotty, and barely visible, it is the idea of a poor image, pushed to the extreme. This is from the perspective of looking at each individual clip as once an image, but from an overall view of this film, it can also be considered imperfect cinema. As Steyerl describes imperfect cinema’s “visuality is resolutely compromised: blurred,

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