The Early Films of Peter Greenaway Vol 1

Before the breakthrough of The Draughtsman's Contract (also available to hire, with A Zed and Two Noughts) Peter Greenaway had made a series of highly inventive films which established all the obsessions that run through his later work. In this highly innovative and witty collection of short films, the subject matter varies widely: the potted history of 37 people who have fallen to their deaths from windows (Windows), a sequence of 92 maps to guide a dead ornithologist on his way into the afterlife (A Walk Through It), but all the films are immensely playful and take pleasure in cataloguing the absurd.

Availability

• A DVD of this title is available to hire
• The print of this title is from the National Archive

Cast and Crew

Director

Peter Greenaway

Technical information

Certificate

Cert PG

Country

UK

Year

1969-1978

Colour

Black and white

Running time

87 mins