H is for House 1976 All ages
H is for House 1976 All ages
16MM, COLOUR, MONO, 9 MINUTES, UK, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR/SCRIPT/CINEMATOGRAPHER/EDITOR: PETER GREENAWAY / MUSIC: ANTONIO LUCIO VIVALDI, JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE
In H is for House, the story of a naturalist is recounted by actor Colin Cantlie over a home movie by Peter Greenaway. Scenes of an idyllic English landscape featuring Greenaway’s partner tending to mundane chores and his daughter playing are overlayed with sounds from nature, spurts of classical music and a voice-over that recites words beginning with the letter ‘H’. Greenaway plays with the confusing nomenclatures that occur in the process of ascribing meaning and words to objects, and in a nod to the late paintings of Surrealist René Magritte, he juxtaposes the words with images and create a fascinating dialectical relationship between image, sound and text.
Contact: Sun 13 Sept 1.00pm / Cinema B (Program screens in the following order: Intervals, H is for House, Windows, Water Wrackets and Dear Phone)
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