Film of Peter Greenaway

Revision as of 19:45, 3 May 2008

Art filmmaker, started out in propaganda (goernment work)

Early: many shots have longs shots of phone booths and such with a narrator, or long lists that could plausibly come from an actual plot elsewhere

Later started making movies with plots and actors

influenced by vermeer, french new wave trouffant(sp?) and gouddard(sp?)

First feature length film was somewhere between the list based narrator driven work and charactes with stories

Called the Falls, 92 fictional biographies. Brds, flight food death, all victims are immortal and were victims of a horrible event.

They all learn one of 92 languages that only the other vctims can speak, they all take on aspects of birds like growing feathers.

If someone were to come in halfway, they would have no suspicion that the thing is fictional, and would be drawn in.

First: Clip #7 of 92 Falls: Lacer Fallacet