Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)

1h 3m
Documentary
9.5

Lost cinema. Lost culture. Lost country. Lost people. How to recreate the past with nothing? Cinema of the impossible. The silent past is a horror film. The smell of nitrate in the morning. How many ghosts can the cinema contain? 75 films. 22 years. What is the numerological significance? Too late. Never too late.

Cast

Crew

Khavn
Director, Translator
Jayson Aquino
Editor
Jet Leyco
Editor
Furan Guillermo
Editor, Sound
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Producer
Nestor Vera Crruz
Music Supervisor
Roy Cagalingan
Translator
Rocío Mateo-Sagasta
Translator
Nuria Cubas
Translator
Ines Intxausti
Translator
Mark Angeles
Translator

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