Lyrical Nitrate (Dutch: Lyrisch Nitraat)[1] is a 1991 collage film by Peter Delpeut.[2]
Summary
editThe 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
editThe 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]
See also
edit- Decasia, a similar non-narrative, found-footage film.
- The Forbidden Quest, Delpeut's unofficial sequel to Lyrical Nitrate.
- Lost film
Notes
edit- ^ Delpeut, Peter (2021-03-13), Lyrisch Nitraat / Lyrical Nitrate English subtitles, retrieved 2024-01-17
- ^ BAMPFA
- ^ a b Canby, Vincent (1991-10-11). "The Beauty of the Silents". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Purtell, Tim (1996-04-26). "Foreign Videos". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on December 23, 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
- ^ 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.
- ^ op den Kemp, Claudy (2004-11-30). "Plus belle que la beauté est la ruine de la beauté". Offscreen.