The Decay of Fiction

The Decay of Fiction

2002
Drama, Documentary
1h 13m
An experimental film in the truest sense, The Decay of Fiction makes use of two traditional cinematic practices in juxtaposition. The film is first a journey through a historic hotel in Los Angeles, empty and awaiting demolition. Within these spaces will be set a series of dramatic encounters with characters who might all have been present in this building at the same time. (Anthology Film Archives)
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The Decay of Fiction

2002
Drama, Documentary
1h 13m
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Rated 06 Nov 2010
25
61st
"The film's superimpositions, movie-dialogue samples, and audio-visual burps collectively suggest an acid trip." - Ed Gonzalez
Rated 23 May 2020
5
91st
O'Neill's dense, disorienting collage of images renders Hollywood history as a macabre camera obscura. The ghosts of celluloid past haunt the hallways of the abandoned Ambassador Hotel, flitting from room to room in half-remembered purpose, doomed to decay, entropy, and anonymity. Removed from narrative causality, our characters' behavior assumes a bent of existential absurdity, routine without purpose, everyone reduced to the shadows of their forgotten lives.

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