Kovo 6th aThe first wave film festival invites you to celebrate the birthday of cinema - sthree will be shown during the special screening documentary films made from reuse at the Amsterdam Film Museum protected by EYE archival material. The main emphasis of the program will become dutch directed by Peter Delpeuto the film Lyrical Nitrate, poetically combining scenes from 1905-1915 m. created silent movies, belonging to the collection of one of the first film distributors, the Dutchman Jean Desmet, known as a cinematic rarity.
in 1895 In February, the Lumière brothers patented the cinematograph, an invention that could not only record, but also project an image from a film. In March of the same year, the first private screening of their film "Workers Leaving the Factory" took place, from which it is accepted to count the beginning of the history of cinema. The "First Wave" early film festival invites you to symbolically commemorate this event every year, presenting a memorable fragment of film history that influenced the further development of film art.
Dutch director Peter Delpeutas invites you to travel to the 20th century in the film "Lyrical nitrate". start and get to know the collection of one of the first film distributors, the Dutch visionary and adventurer, Jean Desmet (1875-1956). From the tape fragments stored in it, a visually expressive story is composed about the history of cinema and themes that have excited filmmakers and viewers for more than a century. The essential stain of the poetics of "Lyric Nitrate" and the two short films accompanying it are the artifacts of tape decomposition, which are usually considered "garbage", but which give these works an additional layer of meaning.
The personality of Jean Desmet deserves a separate film. The future celebrity of the world of cinema was born in Brussels, in the family of a poor textile merchant with many children. Having lost his parents at an early age, the clever young man bought a pipe organ and toured the most remote parts of the country by renting the instrument, and at the turn of the century he invited the adventurous inhabitants of Rotterdam to spin the "Magic Wheel of Adventure". The adventure ended when the local authorities decided that the entertainment encouraged gambling and ordered it to be closed. Without blinking, Desmets offered the townspeople a new attraction - sledding on tracks resembling a roller coaster. The idea also turned out to be risky, so a new adventure had to be resorted to - in 1907. Desmet invited the audience to a traveling cinema. A few years later, he already owned a chain of cinemas in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and other cities in the country.
Desmet was indifferent to beauty and money: for an additional fee, he invited to see his traveling caravan, the interiors of which were equal to the luxurious salons of the time. in 1913 While visiting the royal family in Rotterdam, he made a film about her without waiting for anything. It goes without saying that there was no better place in the city to reveal the greatness of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Hendrik than the facades of Desmet cinemas.
The legacy of one of the first film distributors was equivalent to a treasure - over 900 filmstrips preserved from 1905-1915. silent film certificates, movie posters, advertisements, postcards, letters, photos, business documents. The exceptional collection has become the flagship of Amsterdam's EYE Film Museum, sparking the imagination of cinephiles, filmmakers and researchers.
In Lyrical Nitrate, Dutch director Peter Delpeut reveals its beauty and the dramas of tape decay, showcasing a rich spectrum of silent film techniques, mise-en-scène, acting and color. The main film will be screened alongside two kindred short films, The Liquidator (dir. Karel Doing) and Under the Sign of Saturn (Act 1) (dir. Alexandra Navrtil), which highlight the drama of the digital manipulation of early film.
The cinema's birthday screening "Lyrical nitrate" will be held in March 6 p. "Skalvija" cinema center. The project is partially financed by the Lithuanian Film Center and Vilnius city municipality.
