Shakespeare Network | Peter Greenaway - Prospero's Book Director - Career Retrospective On and Off Camera - 2023 - 4K @ShakespeareNetwork | Uploaded February 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Peter Greenaway, the filmmaker behind Prospero’s Books - watch the movie: youtu.be/sgBT6tvP5pg - The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover; The Draughtsman's Contract and The Pillow Book visits the BFI Southbank to talk about his career on-and off-camera.

Peter Greenaway’s career as an artist, writer and filmmaker has spanned six decades. Throughout, he has consistently challenged established forms of narrative filmmaking, never compromising, while also embracing new technologies.

Trained as a painter, Peter Greenaway is a true multimedia artist, whose huge output encompasses film, video and television, gallery installations, CD-ROMs and opera libretti. His instantly recognisable style sets immaculately composed images to a predetermined structure (alphabetical, numerical, pictorial, musical, chemical), with those images often featuring copious frontal nudity of both sexes. He once said that “cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be left to the storyteller” and also expressed a “wish to be included in some way – maybe peripherally or vestigially – on the list of excellent pornographic writers”.

Prospero’s Books (1991) and The Pillow Book (1996) turned classic literary texts – Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the ‘pillow book’ of Sei Shōnagon – into intricate, multi-layered visual feasts, thanks to then brand new high-definition video technology. Prospero’s Books also features a remarkable late performance by Sir John Gielgud, incarnating Shakespeare’s magician on screen while voicing all the other characters.

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Screen Adaptation - Co-Production : MISANTHROPOS – Official Website - misanthropos.net
Adapted by Maximianno Cobra, from Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens", the film exposes the timeless challenge of social hypocrisy, disillusion and annihilation against the poetics of friendship, love, and beauty.

IMDb page: imdb.com/title/tt6946736

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