Lyrical Nytrate

Name: Lyrical Nytrate
Released: 1991
Rating: 51.75
Cast: Henny Porten, Lyda Borelli, Anni Timm

1991

Documentary

50m

This film is a compilation of scenes from silent films made between 1905 and 1915 that sat in storage in an Amsterdam cinema for many years. The title refers to the deteriorating nitrate film stock used in these films. (imdb)

Directed by:

Peter Delpeut

Written by:

Peter Delpeut

Starring:

Henny Porten Lyda Borelli Anni Timm

Genre:

Documentary

AKA:

Lyrisch nitraat

Country:

Netherlands

Language:

Dutch

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Lyrical Nytrate

1991

Documentary

50m

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Alex Watkins

Rated 28 Mar 2017

Quite literally a found-footage film, assembled from bits and pieces of silents that sat in a vault for years. It's a pretty cool experiment, full of surprisingly affecting moments in which the artificiality of its construction conveys ideas of temporality, deterioration and death. The ending, in which the film breaks down beyond recognition, is a psychedelic trip.

Rated 28 Mar 2017

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