Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933) (2023)

This is not a film by Khavn

12/10/2023

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.