Peter Greenaway, (born 5 April 1942) is a Welsh film director, screenwriter and artist. His films are noted for the distinct influence of

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and

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painting, and

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in particular. Common traits in his films are the scenic composition and illumination and the contrasts of costume and nudity, nature and architecture, furniture and people, sexual pleasure and painful death.

Early life

Greenaway was born in Newport,

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, Wales, to a teacher mother and a builder's merchant father. Greenaway's family left South Wales when he was three years old (they had moved there originally to avoid

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) and settled in

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. He attended

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in nearby

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. At an early age Greenaway decided on becoming a painter. He became interested in European cinema, focusing first on the films of

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, and then on the French ''

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'' filmmakers such as

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and, most especially,

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. Greenaway has said that Resnais's '' Last Year in Marienbad'' (1961) had been the most important influence upon his own filmmaking (and he himself established a close working relationship with that film's cinematographer

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). He now lives in

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Career

1962–1999

In 1962, Greenaway began studies at

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, where a fellow student was musician

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(later cast in '' The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover''). Greenaway trained as a muralist for three years; he made his first film, ''Death of Sentiment'', a churchyard furniture essay filmed in four large London cemeteries. In 1965, he joined the

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(COI), where he went on to work for fifteen years as a film editor and director. In that time he made a series of experimental films, starting with ''Train'' (1966), footage of the last steam trains at

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(situated behind the COI), edited to a ''

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'' composition. ''Tree'' (1966) is a homage to the embattled tree growing in concrete outside the

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on the

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in London. By the late 1970s he was confident and ambitious, and made '' Vertical Features Remake'' and ''

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''. The former is an examination of various arithmetical editing structures, and the latter is a journey through the maps of a fictitious country. In 1980, Greenaway delivered ''

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'' (his first feature-length film) – a mammoth, fantastical, absurdist encyclopaedia of flight-associated material all relating to ninety-two victims of what is referred to as the Violent Unknown Event (VUE). In the 1980s his cinema flowered in his best-known films, ''

The Draughtsman's Contract ''The Draughtsman's Contract'' is a 1982 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway – his first conventional feature film (following the feature-length mockumentary '' The Falls''). Originally produced for Channel 4, the ...

'' (1982), ''

A Zed & Two Noughts ''A Zed & Two Noughts'' is a 1985 film written and directed by Peter Greenaway. This film was Greenaway's first collaboration with cinematographer Sacha Vierny, who went on to shoot virtually all of Greenaway's work in the 1980s and 1990s, until ...

'' (1985), ''

The Belly of an Architect ''The Belly of an Architect'' is a 1987 film drama written and directed by Peter Greenaway, featuring original music by Glenn Branca and Wim Mertens. Starring Brian Dennehy and Chloe Webb, it was nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) award ...

'' (1987), ''

Drowning by Numbers ''Drowning by Numbers'' is a 1988 British-Dutch film directed by Peter Greenaway. It won the award for Best Artistic Contribution at the Cannes Film Festival of 1988. Plot The film's plot centres on three married women — a grandmother, her d ...

'' (1988), and his most successful film, '' The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover'' (1989). Greenaway's most familiar musical collaborator during this period is composer

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, who has scored several films. In 1989, Greenaway collaborated with artist Tom Phillips on a television serial ''

A TV Dante ''A TV Dante'' is a 1990 mini-series directed by Tom Phillips and Peter Greenaway. It covers eight of the 34 cantos in Dante Alighieri's ''Inferno'', part of his 14th century epic poem ''Divine Comedy''. Peter Greenaway and Tom Phillips won ...

'', dramatising the first few cantos of

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's ''

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''. In the 1990s he presented ''

Prospero's Books ''Prospero's Books'' is a 1991 British Experimental film, avant-garde film adaptation of William Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'', written and directed by Peter Greenaway. John Gielgud, Sir John Gielgud plays Prospero, the protagonist who provide ...

'' (1991), the controversial ''

The Baby of Mâcon ''The Baby of Mâcon'' is a 1993 historical drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway, and starring Ralph Fiennes, Julia Ormond and Philip Stone. The film is set in France during the mid-17th century, in the court of Cosimo III de' Med ...

'' (1993), ''

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'' (1996), and ''

8½ Women '' Women'' is a 1999 comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway and starring John Standing, Matthew Delamere, and Vivian Wu. An international co-production of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Germany, it was en ...

'' (1999). In the early 1990s Greenaway wrote ten opera

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known as the '' Death of a Composer'' series, dealing with the commonalities of the deaths of ten composers from

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, however, the other composers are fictitious, and one is a character from ''The Falls''. In 1995,

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completed the sixth libretto, ''

Rosa – A Horse Drama ''Rosa, A Horse Drama'' also called ''Rosa – The Death of a Composer'' is an opera in 12 scenes by Dutch composer, Louis Andriessen with a libretto by English film maker Peter Greenaway. The libretto was the sixth in Greenaway's '' Death of a Com ...

''. He is currently professor of cinema studies at the

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, Switzerland.

2000–present

Greenaway presented the ambitious ''

The Tulse Luper Suitcases ''The Tulse Luper Suitcases'' is a multimedia project by film maker and artist Peter Greenaway, initially intended to comprise four films, a 16-episode TV series, and 92 DVDs, as well as websites, CD-ROMs and books. The project documented the i ...

'', a multimedia project that resulted in three films, a website, two books, a touring exhibition, and a shorter feature which reworked the material of the first three films. He also contributed to '' Visions of Europe'', a short film collection by different European Union directors; his British entry is '' The European Showerbath''. ''

Nightwatching ''Nightwatching'' is a 2007 film about the artist Rembrandt and the creation of his 1642 painting ''The Night Watch''. The film is directed by Peter Greenaway and stars Martin Freeman as Rembrandt, with Eva Birthistle as his wife Saskia van Uyle ...

'' and ''

Rembrandt's J'Accuse ''Rembrandt's J'Accuse'' is a 2008 Dutch, German and Finnish documentary film directed by Peter Greenaway about criticism of today's visual illiteracy argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt's 1642 painting ''The Night Watch''. Greenawa ...

'' are two films on

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, released respectively in 2007 and 2008. ''Nightwatching'' is the first feature in the series "Dutch Masters", with the second project titled as ''

Goltzius and the Pelican Company ''Goltzius and the Pelican Company'' is a 2012 historical film by writer-director Peter Greenaway. Plot The film is based on the life of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th-century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. He seduces the Margrave ...

''. On 17 June 2005, Greenaway appeared for his first VJ performance during an art club evening in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with music by DJ Serge Dodwell (aka Radar), as a backdrop, 'VJ' Greenaway used for his set a special system consisting of a large plasma screen with laser controlled touchscreen to project the ninety-two ''Tulse Luper'' stories on the twelve screens of "Club 11", mixing the images live. This was later reprised at the Optronica festival, London. On 12 October 2007, he created the multimedia installation '' Peopling the Palaces at Venaria Reale'' at the

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, which animated the Palace with 100 videoprojectors. Greenaway was interviewed for Clive Meyer's ''Critical Cinema: Beyond the Theory of Practice'' (2011), and voiced strong criticisms of film theory as distinct from discussions of other media: "Are you sufficiently happy with cinema as a thinking medium if you are only talking to one person?" On 3 May 2016, he received a Honoris Causa doctorate from the University of San Martín, Argentina.

''Nine Classical Paintings Revisited''

In 2006, Greenaway began a series of digital

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s, ''Nine Classical Paintings Revisited'', with his exploration of

's '' Night Watch'' in the

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in Amsterdam. On 30 June 2008, after much negotiation, Greenaway staged a one-night performance 'remixing'

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's ''

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'' in the

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of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan to a select audience of dignitaries. The performance consisted of superimposing digital imagery and projections onto the painting with music from the composer

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. File:La ronda de noche, por Rembrandt van Rijn.jpg, '' Night Watch'' by

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'' by

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(mid-16th century) Greenaway exhibited his digital exploration of ''

'' by

as part of the 2009

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. An arts writer for ''

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'' called it "possibly the best unmanned art history lecture you'll ever experience," while acknowledging that some viewers might respond to it as "mediocre art,

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or a flamboyant denigration of site-specific video installation." The 50-minute presentation, set to a soundtrack, incorporates closeup images of faces from the painting along with animated diagrams revealing compositional relations among the figures. These images are projected onto and around the replica of the painting that now stands at the original site, within the

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of the

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refectory on

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. The soundtrack features music and imagined dialogue scripted by Greenaway for the 126 "wedding guests, servants, onlookers and wedding crashers" depicted in the painting, consisting of

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and banal chatter that culminates in reaction to the miraculous transformation of water to wine, according to the

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the first miracle performed by Jesus.

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's ''

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'',

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's '' Grande Jatte'', works by

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and

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, Velázquez's ''

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'' and

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's '' The Last Judgment'' are possible series subjects.

Films

Features

*''

'' (1980) *''

'' (1982) *''

'' (1985) *''

'' (1987) *''

'' (1988) *'' The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover'' (1989) *''

'' (1991) *''

'' (1993) *''

'' (1996) *''

'' (1999) *'' The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story'' (2003) *'' The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea'' (2004) *'' The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish'' (2004) *''

A Life in Suitcases ''The Tulse Luper Suitcases'' is a multimedia project by film maker and artist Peter Greenaway, initially intended to comprise four films, a 16-episode TV series, and 92 DVDs, as well as websites, CD-ROMs and books. The project documented the i ...

'' (edited version of The Tulse Luper Suitcases series) (2005) *''

'' (2007) *''

'' (2012) *''

Eisenstein in Guanajuato ''Eisenstein in Guanajuato'' is a 2015 Biographical film, biographical Romance film, romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway. Starring Elmer Bäck as Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein, alongside Stelio Savante, Lis ...

'' (2015) * '' Walking to Paris'' (2022)

Shorts

*''Death of Sentiment'' (1962) *''Tree'' (1966) *''Train'' (1966) *''Revolution'' (1967) *''5 Postcards from Capital Cities'' (1967) *''Intervals'' (1969) *''Erosion'' (1971) *''H Is for House'' (1973) *''Windows'' (1975) *''Water Wrackets'' (1975) *''Water'' (1975) *''Goole by Numbers'' (1976) *''Dear Phone'' (1978) *'' Vertical Features Remake'' (1978) *''A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist'' (1978) *''1–100'' (1978) *''Making a Splash'' (1984) *''Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire'' (1985) *''Hubert Bals Handshake'' (1989) *''Rosa: La monnaie de munt'' (1992) *''Peter Greenaway'' (1995) - segment of ''

Lumière and Company ''Lumière and Company'' (original title: ) is a 1995 anthology film made in collaboration between forty-one international film directors. The project consists of short films made by each of the filmmakers using the original camera invented by the ...

'' *''The Bridge Celebration'' (1997) *''The Man in the Bath'' (2001) *''European Showerbath'' (2004) - segment of ''Visions of Europe'' *'' Castle Amerongen'' (2011) *''Just in Time'' (2013) - segment of ''3x3D''

Documentaries and mockumentaries

*''Eddie Kid'' (1978) *''Cut Above the Rest'' (1978) *''Zandra Rhodes'' (1979) *''Women Artists'' (1979) *''Leeds Castle'' (1979) *''Lacock Village'' (1980) *''Country Diary'' (1980) *''Terence Conran'' (1981) *''Four American Composers'' (1983) *'' The Coastline (also known as The Sea in their Blood)'' (1983) *''Fear of Drowning'' (1988) *''The Reitdiep Journeys'' (2001) *''

'' (2008) *''The Marriage'' (2009) *''Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth'' (2011)

Television

*''Act of God'' (1980) *''Death in the Seine'' (French TV, 1988) *''

'' (mini-series, 1989) *''M Is for Man, Music, Mozart'' (1991) *''A Walk Through Prospero's Library'' (1992) *''Darwin'' (French TV, 1993) *''The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama'' (1999)

Exhibitions

*''The Physical Self'', Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1991) * ''Le bruit des nuages'' (as curator), Louvre Museum, Paris (1992) *''100 Objects to represent the World'' (1992) at the

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and the

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Vienna. *''

Stairs 1 Geneva ''Stairs 1 Geneva'' is a film by Peter Greenaway. It is also a large-scale art installation, an exhibition, a catalogue and a CD album. The film The film comprises one hundred sequences showing a location in the city of Geneva Geneva ( ; fre ...

'' (1995) *''Flyga över vatten/Flying over water'', Malmö Konsthall (16/9 2000 – 14/1 2001) * ''Peopling the Palaces at Venaria Reale'',

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(2007) * ''Heavy Water'', Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv (2011) * ''Sex & The Sea'', Maritiem Museum, Rotterdam (2013) * ''The Towers/Lucca Hubris'', Lucca (2013)

References

External links

* *
Peter Greenaway.
Faculty website at

(Biography, filmography, articles and photos) * * Manu Luksch
Interview – The Medium is the Message.
Telepolis. 13 February 1997 * Chris Gordon
Interview – An eye for optical theory
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