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- Loan Terms:
- Circulating
- Status:
- In
- DVD006952
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Lyrical Nitrate
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Delpeut, Peter
-
Eye Filminstitute
- Title:
- Lyrical Nitrate
- Alternate Title:
- Lyrisch Nitraat
- Director:
- Delpeut, Peter
- Production Co:
- Yuca Film
- Description:
- DVD - Region free.   master.   1 videodisc of 1.
50 minutes.  
- Country:
- Netherlands
- Year:
- 1991
- Publisher:
- Eye Filminstitute
- Language:
- English language with optional English, German, or French subtitles
- Genre:
- Anthology Film, Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Lyrical Nitrate is a compilation of film fragments dating from the years of 1905-1915. Filmmaker Peter Delpeut shows the images in the original rich colors in which they were exhibited in the early days of cinema. And he subtle manipulates the speed of fragments according to the mood of the images, as if the projector is run by hand. Delpeut makes the modern spectator experience early cinema as an opera about love and death, scored by Bizef, Gluck, and Puccini. Lyrical Nitrate is not only an ode to the art of silent cinema but also an ode to the film material itself: at the end of the film, a flickering pattern of decaying nitrate slowly replaces the photographic image, leaving the spectator with a feeling of loss and nostalgia.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |