Lyrical Nitrate

Lyrical Nitrate (Dutch: Lyrisch Nitraat) is a 1991 collage film by Peter Delpeut.

Summary

The film consists of clips from various silent films printed on decaying nitrate film stock, including shorts, documentaries, and travelogues. There is no formal narrative. Delpeut followed the film with 1993's The Forbidden Quest, which also uses found footage; the two were released together on video and DVD.

Production

The films were drawn from the Desmet Collection of the Nederlands Filmmuseum (Eye Filmmuseum), where Delpeut worked as deputy director for a decade. Jean Desmet (1875–1956) was an early Dutch film distributor. After Desmet's death a cache of film prints was discovered in the attic of a theater he owned in Amsterdam, and subsequently added to the museum's collection.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Delpeut, Peter (2021-03-13), Lyrisch Nitraat / Lyrical Nitrate English subtitles, retrieved 2024-01-17
  2. ↑ BAMPFA
  3. 1 2 Canby, Vincent (1991-10-11). "The Beauty of the Silents". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
  4. ↑ Habib, André (2006). "Ruin, Archive and the Time of Cinema: Peter Delpeut's Lyrical Nitrate". SubStance. 35 (2): 120–139. doi:10.1353/sub.2006.0034.
  5. ↑ Purtell, Tim (1996-04-26). "Foreign Videos". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on December 23, 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
  6. ↑ Elsaesser, Thomas (2009). "Archives and Archaeologies: the Place of Non-Fiction Film in Contemporary Media". In Vinzenz Hediger, Patrick Vonderau (ed.). Films that Work: Industrial Film and the Productivity of Media. Amsterdam University Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-90-8964-013-0.
  7. ↑ op den Kemp, Claudy (2004-11-30). "Plus belle que la beauté est la ruine de la beauté". Offscreen.