Lyrical Nitrate (1991)

Original title

Lyrisch nitraat

Directed by

Peter Delpeut

Genre

documentary film

Country

Netherlands

Runtime

50 min

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This film is a collage of silent movie footage from the early 1900s. It shows fragments of old films that were preserved on nitrate stock. There is no story, just the images themselves.

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What happens

Lyrical Nitrate (Dutch: Lyrisch Nitraat) is a 1991 collage film by Peter Delpeut. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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