"Decasia": The Beauty of Film Decay

tregoweth writes "The New York Times has a story about 'Decasia,' a film created entirely from deteriorating nitrate film footage. Ya can't beat analog for interesting disintegration."

Digital too

[Dolly_Llama]

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deteriorating analog footage

[nakaduct]

... created entirely from deteriorating nitrate film footage. Ya can't beat analog for interesting disintegration."

Of course, that's not to say you can't make a film entirely from deteriorating digital footage [imdb.com].

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What about AOTC?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ya can't beat analog for interesting disintegration.

Oh, I don't know. This year's all-digitial Attack of the Clones provided for an interesting example of the distintegration of George Lucas' writing, directing and overall creativity...

The text

[Anonymous Coward]

In case it gets slashdotted. Not trying to karma whore here, just being helpful:

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[The_Obfuscator]

The clip has footage of a cessarian delivery. And I WAS going to eat my eggs...

Hey cool!

[CaffeineAddict2001]

The latest NIN video is out!

So the question is..

[tezzery]

Will someone be looking at crappy bad quality divx cam rips in 100 years appreciating them artistically?

Decomposing nitrates

[psyconaut]

Gives a whole new meaning to "the premiere went off with a real bang!" ;)

-psy