POLTE
Flame

by Sami VAN INGEN
2018 / 35mm / color / sound / 1 screen / 15' 00




A fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only remaining nitrate reel of the lost feature film SILJA – FALLEN ASLEEP WHEN YOUNG (1937) directed by Teuvo Tulio. All screening prints and the negative of the film were destroyed in a 1959 studio fire. A sequence from the middle of the film was found at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris in 2015.

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distribution format Digital file on server (FHD)
screen 16/9 (single screen)
speed 24 fps
sound sound
rental fee 64,00 €

distribution format DCP on server (SMPTE 2K)
screen 16/9 (single screen)
speed 24 fps
sound sound
rental fee 64,00 €