Peter Greenaway

At the recommendation of Bill I shall take a look at some of Perter Greenaway's work. Bill specifically recommended Dante's Inferno, formally known as "A TV Dante".


Lumiere & Company

"I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet."

Peter Greenaway made a 52 second short film for the Lumiere & Company collection of short films. It relates images from the origin of the Lumiere Brothers' first camera in 1895 to the present day.




M is for Man Music Mozart - Vesalius Song




Windows

"Windows" (1974) features narration (provided by Greenaway) over four minutes of shots depicting an English countryside in which 37 residents felt compelled to commit "defenstration," i.e., falling out of windows. The first of Greenaway's lavish "fictional histories," this is a good primer for newcomers and features effective use of Jean-Philippe Rameau on the soundtrack.

Grow Plant Grow #2

Another test of the plant growing. Very little progress made.

Grow Plant Grow

I've been quite busy working on a backstory and underlying concepts for the video sequence I'm going to construct from my tests.

But I've been doing some occassional experimentation with an effect to make a plant to appear to be growing from the ground.

So here's the very first test...

High Definition Filmming may be a possibility

The other day I did some networking. Guy, who has been starring in my experiments knows a fellow by the name of Justin with a broadcast standard High Definition video camera. Justin is eager to become reaquainted with his "creative" passions so he kindly lent his services to Guy to help him with his latet film project.

Guy held a meeting with him at lunch time of Friday 13th so they could discuss Guy's project. I thought it would benefitial to come along and meet Justin - a wise decision and he seems to be an insightful and delightful chappy.

He's also expressed interest in filmming my project too which would be wonderful because the quality of MiniDV video is hurting the realism of my compositing.