Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) |
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Peter Greenaway,
Early life
Greenaway was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales,[1] to a teacher mother and a builder's merchant father.[2] Greenaway's family had relocated to Wales prior to his birth to escape the Nazi bombings of London. They returned to the London area at the end of World War II and settled in Woodford, then part of Essex. He attended Churchfields Junior School and later Forest School in nearby Walthamstow.
At an early age Greenaway decided on becoming a painter. He became interested in European cinema, focusing first on the films of
Career
1962–1999
In 1962, Greenaway began studies at
In 1980, Greenaway delivered The Falls (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 (1982), A Zed & Two Noughts (1985), The Belly of an Architect (1987), Drowning by Numbers (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 Michael Nyman, who has scored several films.
In 1989, Greenaway collaborated with artist
In the early 1990s Greenaway wrote ten opera
2000–present
Greenaway presented the ambitious The Tulse Luper Suitcases, 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
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
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?"[6]
On 3 May 2016, he received a Honoris Causa doctorate from the University of San Martín, Argentina.[7]
Nine Classical Paintings Revisited
In 2006, Greenaway began a series of digital
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Night Watch by Rembrandt
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The Wedding at Cana by Paolo Veronese(mid-16th century)
Greenaway exhibited his digital exploration of
Films
Features
- The Falls (1980)
- The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
- A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
- The Belly of an Architect (1987)
- Drowning by Numbers (1988)
- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
- Prospero's Books (1991)
- The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
- The Pillow Book (1996)
- 8½ Women (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 (edited version of The Tulse Luper Suitcases series) (2005)[10]
- Nightwatching (2007)
- Goltzius and the Pelican Company (2012)
- Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)
- Walking to Paris (upcoming)
- Lucca Mortis (upcoming)
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)[11]
- Peter Greenaway (1995) - segment of Lumière and Company
- The Bridge Celebration (1997)[11]
- The Man in the Bath (2001)
- European Showerbath (2004) - segment of Visions of Europe
- Castle Amerongen(2011)
- Just in Time (2013) - segment of 3x3D[11][12]
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)[11][13]
- Fear of Drowning (1988)
- The Reitdiep Journeys (2001)[11]
- Rembrandt's J'Accuse(2008)
- The Marriage (2009)[11]
- Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth (2011)[11]
Television
- Act of God (1980)[14][15]
- Death in the Seine (French TV, 1988)
- A TV Dante (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)[16]
- Le bruit des nuages (as curator), Louvre Museum, Paris (1992)
- 100 Objects to represent the World (1992) at the Hofburg Imperial PalaceVienna.
- Stairs 1 Geneva (1995)
- Flyga över vatten/Flying over water, Malmö Konsthall (16/9 2000 – 14/1 2001)
- Peopling the Palaces at Venaria Reale, Palace of Venaria (2007)
- Heavy Water, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv (2011)
- Sex & The Sea, Maritiem Museum, Rotterdam (2013)
- The Towers/Lucca Hubris, Lucca (2013)
References
- ^ Abbott, Spencer H. (6 June 1997). "Interview with Peter Greenaway". Archived from the original on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 15 February 2008.
- ^ "Peter Greenaway Biography (1942–)". Filmreference.Com. 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2011.
- ^ Film-makers on film: Peter Greenaway: an interview with John Whitley in The Daily Telegraph, 14 June 2004. [Retrieved 27 February 2022]
- ISSN 1755-5485.
- ^ "Peopling The Palaces at Venaria Reale – Enciclopedia del cinema in Piemonte". Retrieved 12 February 2011.[dead link]
- S2CID 149797284
- ^ "Peter Greenaway llega a la UNSAM » Noticias UNSAM". Archived from the original on 10 January 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
- ^ "Leonardo's Last Supper" Archived 21 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Peter Greenaway's official site.
- ^ Roberta Smith, "In Venice, Peter Greenaway Takes Veronese's Figures Out to Play", The New York Times 21 June 2009 online.
- ^ "TULSE LUPER 'A LIFE IN SUITCASES' BY PETER GREENAWAY". Luperpedia Foundation. 2011. Archived from the original on 13 February 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Peter Greenaway". Luperpedia Foundation. 2011. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
- ^ "3x3D". imdb. 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
- ^ "The Sea in Their Blood (1983)". imdb. 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
- ^ Greenaway, Peter. "Act of God". Archived from the original on 19 January 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
- ISBN 9781135206208.
- ISBN 90-6918-088-X.
External links
- Official website
- Peter Greenaway at IMDb
- Peter Greenaway. Faculty website at European Graduate School (Biography, filmography, articles and photos)
- Peter Greenaway biography and credits at the BFI's Screenonline
- Manu Luksch. Interview – The Medium is the Message. Telepolis. 13 February 1997
- Chris Gordon. Interview – An eye for optical theory, The St. Petersburg Times, Russia. 21 June 2012