Peter Greenaway: "New Possibilities: Cinema is Dead, Long Live Cinema"

"New Possibilities: Cinema Is Dead, Long Live Cinema" is the first of two lectures presented by filmmaker Peter Greenaway as the 2010-2011 Avenali Chair in the Humanities at the Townsend Center for the Humanities. Best known for such films as The Draughtsman's Contract (1982), The Cook, the Thief, his Wife & her Lover (1989), The Pillow Book (1996), The Tulse Luper Suitcases (2003-2004), and Nightwatching (2007), Greenaway has worked more recently on numerous exhibitions and installations in Europe, from Venice's Palazzo Fortuny and Barcelona's Joan Miró Gallery to Rotterdam's Boymans van Beuningen Gallery and Paris' Louvre. Regularly nominated for the film festival competitions of Cannes, Venice, and Berlin, Greenaway has also published books, written opera librettos, and collaborated with composers Michael Nyman, Philip Glass, Louis Andriessen, Borut Krzisnik, and David Lang, among others.

Sponsor: Townsend Center for the Humanities http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/

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[RegeleIONESCU]

”is the first of two lectures” - which and where is the other one?

[vivg]

I very much enjoyed this lecture. Greenaway is an outstanding & very charming lecturer. Not surprisingly, his breadth of art history & film history is immense. But the things he speaks about with regard to the new possibilities of Cinema, well, many have already accomplished these. Getting rid of literary narrative in cinema, breaking away from the traditional rectangular movie screen & creating cinema without a camera, have all been accomplished. These are the "new" possibilities?

[MrUtash]

BRAVO INDEED!

[shaell77]

Good.