by Sandy Mandelberger, Online Dailies Editor
Peter Greenaway, one of the most important contemporary film stylists, arrived today as a guest of the ERA New Horizons International Film Festival. The director will attend the Polish premiere of his latest film REMBRANDT’S J’ACCUSE!, presented within the FILMS ABOUT ART International Competition on 26 and 27 July. The documentary meditation on the influences of Rembrandt on modern-day filmmaking had its world premiere at ...
The future of cinema will not be defined by a single direction. Old genres will live alongside new genres. But it is increasingly becoming clear that at least one of these directions will take the form of cinema as some kind of participatory experience, where the audience of one or many may impact how a narrative unfolds itself over space or time. These new forms should not be reduced as simply "choose your own adventure" models but instead should be seen as the coming to life of post-...
Director Peter Greenaway had the 2008 Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) audience spellbound this morning when he reflected on his life as a filmmaker, painter, writer and curator and the future of a world where as he puts it, "cinema is dead". Peter feels most comfortable as a painter and this passion has deeply coloured his notion of making cinema. From a very early age, Peter spent his time manufacturing images and he feels somewhat unfamiliar with filmmaking, which is cur...
Future cinema possibilities include genres such as "performative cinema." Here we have Peter Greenaway performing in front of live audiences his Tulse Luper VJ Tour. Greenaway uses for his set a special VJ system consisting of a large plasma screen with touchscreen, developed for CNCDNC by BeamSystems. Utilizing this system, Greenaway projects the 92 Tulse Luper ‘stories’ on the three screens in a multi
The Tulse Luper Suitcases Trilogy by Peter Greenaway, talented British director Peter Greenaway and renowned Dutch producer Kees Kasander have chosen the Montreal Festival of Nouveau Cinema for a world-première presentation of the complete Tulse Luper Suitcases, consisting of a trilogy of feature films plus a Web site and a multiplayer game designed especially to accompany the saga. Peter Greenaway and Kees Kasander will be in Montreal from October 18 to 22.A true multimedia project, The Tulse ...
The International Film Festival has created a new series in its Official Programme: the Berlinale Special. In it the latest works of great filmmakers will be screened as well as reshowings of important film works, and productions related to the Festival’s special focuses or to particularly explosive political topics.This year’s series includes three reshowings, the most recent films of master directors Peter Greenaway and Ermanno Olmi, two productions examining the political past, and three ...
