Lyrical Nitrate (Dutch: Lyrisch Nitraat)[1] is a 1991 collage film by Peter Delpeut.[2]

Summary

The film consists of clips from various silent films printed on decaying nitrate film stock, including shorts, documentaries, and travelogues.[3] There is no formal narrative.[4] Delpeut followed the film with 1993's The Forbidden Quest, which also uses found footage; the two were released together on video and DVD.[5]

Production

The films were drawn from the Desmet Collection of the Nederlands Filmmuseum (Eye Filmmuseum), where Delpeut worked as deputy director for a decade.[6] 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.[3][7]

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Notes

  1. ^ Delpeut, Peter (2021-03-13), Lyrisch Nitraat / Lyrical Nitrate English subtitles, retrieved 2024-01-17
  2. ^ BAMPFA
  3. ^ a b 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.
  5. ^ Purtell, Tim (1996-04-26). "Foreign Videos". Entertainment Weekly. 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.

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