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Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)
2023·1h 2m·★ 9.5
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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.
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Light commitment · 1h 2m
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