Windows 1974 All ages
Windows 1974 All ages
16MM, COLOUR, MONO, 4 MINUTES, UK, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR/SCRIPT/CINEMATOGRAPHER/EDITOR: PETER GREENAWAY / MUSIC: JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE
‘I think it sums up everything I've done afterwards: it's about statistics, it's very eclectic, it has a very lyrical use of landscape, [and] it's about death – four characteristics that have stayed with me ever since.’ Peter Greenaway, Film Comment, May/June 1990
Appalled and fascinated by the fatuous excuses given for the death of political prisoners in South Africa — pushed out of windows and reported to have slipped on a bar of soap — Peter Greenaway made an ironic film indexing statistics of people falling out of windows. Filmed in an early 19th Century country house, Windows provides a paradoxical illustration to its narration, with static views through the house’s windows to a beautiful English landscape and harpsichord accompaniment by 18th Century Baroque composer Jean-Philippe Rameau.
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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