NR | 1h 59min | Documentary, Film History | 5 March 2023 (Spain/Canada)
Divided into four distinct chapters, “Film, the Living Record of Our Memory” (FTLROOM) delves into an overlooked and largely unknown area of movie history that, even many of those who consider themselves industry experts, will discover they are woefully uniformed.
Wasting zero time, writer and director Ines Toharia presents images of multiple film cans being opened and revealing their content. Most of it is nothing but dust, something that happens to film stock left too long in hot and humid storage rooms. The bulk of these are silent films that went ignored so long—80 percent of all ever produced are forever lost….