A Walk through H: the Reincarnation of an Ornithologist 1978 Ages 15+
A Walk through H: the Reincarnation of an Ornithologist 1978 Ages 15+
16MM, COLOUR, MONO, 41 MINUTES, UK, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR/SCRIPT/EDITOR: PETER GREENAWAY / CINEMATOGRAPHERS: JOHN ROSENBERG, BERT WALKER / MUSIC: MICHAEL NYMAN /. PERFORMED BY BAND CIAMPELLO / PRODUCTION CO: BFI PRODUCTION BOARD / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE
‘I’ve always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you’ve been, where you are, and where you’re going – in a sense its three tenses in one. It’s also an amazing ideogram of information that is very useful and, perhaps most pertinently, also not at all useful.’ Peter Greenaway, Film Comment, May/June 1990
A Walk through H introduces Peter Greenaway’s fictional alter-ego Tulse Luper, a mysterious character that is the subject of The Tulse Luper Suitcases trilogy. Luper is introduced as an ornithologist extraordinaire and expert on bird migration. We are informed that he has arranged a series of 92 maps for the narrator to follow and the film journeys through Luper’s afterlife via these unique pictorial maps created by Greenaway himself. A voice-over instructs the viewer that directions recorded in the maps function like a compass through the veritable “Kingdom of H” that is synonymous with the soul’s journey after death to reach either Heaven or Hell.
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