Lyrical Nitrate (1991)

Lyrisch nitraat

Compilation of film clips from 1905-1915, found footage of silent movies and documentaries from the Jean Desmet Archive of the Netherlands Film Museum. Jean Desmet was one of the first Dutch film distributors. Lyrisch nitraat is a tribute to the craftsmanship of early filmmakers, but also shows the brittleness of old nitrate films. Composed as an opera about love and death, set to music by Bizet, Masek and Puccini.

Date of release
1991-02-20
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
50m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Peter Delpeut

Casting

Interesting facts

Lyrical Nitrate is a 1991 collage film by Peter Delpeut.

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.

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