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Artist Bill Morrison rediscovers cinematic obscurities from the British Film Institute and other archives and reworks them into dazzling experimental films. His most famous is Decasia (2002), a hypnotic feature composed of clips from decaying nitrate films. REDCAT surveys Morrison's work on Monday, with a program including three shorts: The Film of Her (1996), comprised of archival Library of Congress footage edited into a tale of an erotically obsessed film archivist; Outerborough (2005), an 1899 film of a Brooklyn Bridge trolley rendered in split-screen, so it's seen simultaneously coming and going; and 2010's Release, in which Morrison applies a mirror effect to footage of crowds gathered for Al Capone's 1930 release from prison.