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

2023-10-12 • 1h 3min

Overview:

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.