| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Zeitgeist Films in 1978. |
| Summary |
"He has other reputations as well-as an academic, as a maker of curious artifacts, as a cataloguer of the bizarre and as a librarian of the absurd." Peter Greenaway might well have been describing himself in this thumbnail sketch of Canton Remodell, a character in an unmade project. Before his international arthouse hits like THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER, Greenaway made a series of highly inventive films that established all the obsessions that run through his later work. The content of the six playful shorts featured varies widely-from the condensed, wry history of 37 people who have fallen to their deaths from windows (WINDOWS), to a sequence of 92 maps to guide a dead ornithologist on his way into the afterlife (A WALK THROUGH H) set to a thrilling score by award-winning composer Michael Nyman (THE PIANO). All of these quirkily delightful works take great pleasure in outlandish detail, fake erudition and corkscrew narratives. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Motion pictures, Great Britain.
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Motion pictures.
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Short films.
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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| Added Author |
Greenaway, Peter, film director.
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Zeitgeist Films (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
6421853 Kanopy |
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