Peter Greenaway Early Works* (1976)

Director: Peter Greenaway Genres: UK Classics, Drama, Indie-Arthouse Cinema Origin: United Kingdom Certificate: PG Running Time: 70 min

synopsis

A writer, painter and filmmaker, Peter Greenaway shot to fame in 1982 with The Draughtsman's Contract. These early shorts display many of that film's obsessions and qualities. The films are an entertaining and intriguing mix of method and madness, pedantry and poetry, landscape beauty and bureaucratic fog. Questioning film forms and documentary traditions, Greenaway's work is always intellectually sharp and visually superb. Dear Phone features a set of characters who all happen to share the initials H.C. Water Wrackets details military campaigns in an impossibly remote past (or future?). A Walk Through H is nominally about an ornithologist following the trail of the legendary Tulse Luper. "A Walk Through H is a cross between a vintage Borges fiction and a Disney true life adventure, but that wouldn't get close to its humour or the compulsiveness of Michael Nyman's romantic score ... so see it at all costs" - Tony Ryans, Time Out