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).
This collection of British director Peter Greenaway's early formalist experiments displays his dry wit and inventive aesthetic perfectly. The highlight is A Walk Through H, which uses a series of paintings and drawings, with voiceover, to tell an abstracted story of a journey through the afterlife. Water Wrackets tells a sci-fi story about an alien civilization, with the imagery all showing ordinary nature scenes, transformed by the context into images of great mystery and strangeness. Other shorts, including Dear Phone, Windows, and H Is For House, explore a fascination with language and storytelling. Greenaway is unique in that his technical experimentation is always highly entertaining, funny, and compelling on a deeper level.
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. 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 well- 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 well have been describing himself in this thumbnail sketch of Canton Remodell, a character in an unmade project. Before his international 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 fallen 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 all the films are immensely playful and take pleasure in outlandish detail, fake erudition and corkscrew narratives. Composer Michael Nyman started his career with Peter Greenaway and contributed a thrilling score to A Walk Through H.
Six early shorts by the director of 'The Draughtsman's Contract' and 'The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover'. 'A Walk Through H' describes a series of 92 maps that guide a dead ornithologist on his way to the afterlife, whilst 'Windows' is the history of 37 people who have fallen to their death from windows. The other shorts are 'H is For House', 'Intervals', 'Dear Phone' and 'Water Wrackets'.
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