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Biographical drama about the Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein. Focusing on the time that Eisenstein (Elmer Bäck) spent in Mexico in 1931 filming his drama ‘Que Viva Mexico!', the film examines the...
In NIGHTWATCHING Peter Greenaway explores the life of Rembrandt in a biographical feature that uses the 1642 painting The Night Watch as a launching point to explore the 17th Century artist’s life from an...
To commenorate the centenary of the Lumière brothers’ first ‘motion picture’, David Lynch, Spike Lee, Wim Wenders, Zhang Yimou, John Boorman, Arthur Penn, Peter Greenaway, Claude LeLouch, Luis Costa...
Experimental short. A treatment of the 3.5 minute passage from the opening of PROSPERO’S BOOKS showing Prospero walking through his library. The footage of Prospero is shown three times and on each showing...
Feature film based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Prospero is given 24 books to lessen the pain of his exile on a barren island. Greenaway interprets The Tempest as a mind reviewing its entire contents, and...
A dramatisation using state-of-the-art visual techniques of Dante’s vision of hell, where figures from Dante’s own time mix with mythological and biblical characters as they suffer for their sins. Dante...
Documentary on the avant-garde composer John Cage. Includes a postcript by Peter Greenaway in which he discusses some of the issues raised.
Discusses Meredith Monk’s achievements as singer, dancer, performance artist, composer and filmmaker. Includes a postcript by Peter Greenaway in which he discusses some of the issues raised.
A series of four programmes of performances by ‘avant-garde’ musicians from New York: John Cage, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass and Robert Ashley. The programmes are preceeded and followed by short...
Uses material from various performances of the stage version of Ashley’s ‘made for television’ opera ‘Perfect Lives (Private Parts)'. The stage version was a collaboration between Ashley, the...
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