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Early Films Of Peter Greenaway
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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History of the Avant-Garde*
THE EARLY FILMS OF PETER GREENAWAY 1
A Walk Through H | H is for House | Windows | Intervals | Dear Phone | Water Wrackets
He has other reputations as weII- as an academic, as a maker of curious artefacts, as a cataloguer of the bizarre and as a librarian of the absurd.
Greenaway might as weII have been describing himseIf in this thumbnail sketch of Canton RemodeIl, a character in an unmade project. Before his internationaI arthouse hit The Draughtsman's Contract Greenaway had made a series of highly inventive and witty short films. Their content varies widely: the potted history of 37 people who have falIen to their deaths from windows (Windows), a sequence of 92 maps to guide a dead ornithologist on his way into the afterlife (A Walk Through H ), but aII the films are immensely pIayful and take pIeasure in outlandish detail, fake erudition and corkscrew narratives. Composer MichaeI Nyman started his career with Peter Greenaway and contributed a thriIIing score to A Walk Through H.
DVD extras include a GalIey of Artworks, a Gallery of Archives, fiImed introductions to all six fiIms by Peter Greenaway pIus hidden features.
UK | 1969 1978 | coIour and bIack & white | 87 minutes | Ratio 1.33:1 | Region 2 DVD
* A series of video reIeases featuring the best of radicaI and innovative filmmaking from the first hundred years of cinema |
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