COI Collection: Vol.2 - Design For Today (2 Discs)
A collection of short public service information films, from the Central Office of Information collection which is housed by the BFI National Archives. These films are shown here with mordant music as a background. Amongst the collection are 2 films (Inkjet Printer/Living Tomorrow & The Sea in Their Blood), directed by Peter Greenaway (The Draughtsman's Contract; The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover; Prospero's Books). PAL/1:33:1 Full Screen/Colour/Dolby Digital Stereo audio (320kbps).
In this compilation which comprises: Monoloog Van Fumiyo Ikeda Op het Einde Ottone/Ottone Rosa Tippeke Each of the three films succeeds in conveying the power of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's work. This is achieved not by recording the dances step-by-step but by considering them from a totally different perspective: the filmic point-of-view. However in this case perhaps one shouldn't speak of film-adaptation. While these productions use De Keersmaeker's stage performances as inspiration they are nevertheless fully autonomous works that deserve to be looked at as films in their own right.
Vertical Features Remake: A playful parody of avant-garde theorising in which academics argue about the work of Tulse Luper Greenaway's best-known fictional character. The Falls: Divided into 92 biographies of people who have all been affected by the ""VUE"" the Violent Unknown Event a phenomenon in some way connected with birds and flying...
Before Peter Greenaway made his name with the international art-house hit 'The Draughtsman's Contract' he had established a reputation for highly innovative and witty short films. The subject matter varies widely but all the films are immensely playful and take pleasure in cataloguing the absurd. Includes: 'Intervals' (1969) 'Windows' (1975) 'H Is For House' (1973) 'Water Wrackets' (1975) 'Dear Phone' (1977) and 'Walk Through H' (1978).
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