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DVD006952

Lyrical Nitrate

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.
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FII catalog |