Peter Greenaway: The Early Works

Three shorts: “Dear phone” (1976); “Water wrackets” (1978); “A walk through H” (1978). These films are an entertaining and intriguing mix of method and madness, pedantry and poetry, landscape beauty and bureaucratic fog. Questioning film forms and documentary traditions, Greenaway’s work is always intellectually sharp and visually superb.

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Credits

production company

BFI

producer/director

Peter Greenaway

Duration

01:10:00:00

Production places

United Kingdom

Production dates

1976

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

324836

Language

English

Subject categories

Experimental

Experimental → Experimental films - Great Britain

Short films

Short films → Short films - Great Britain

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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United Kingdom, 1976

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