Apr 26 2005
Windows (Peter Greenaway)
Geek warning I get over-excited about most of Peter Greenaway’s work. You can watch a striking 4 minute piece called “Windows” online from his website: http://petergreenaway.co.uk/windows.htm
Excerpt
“I had been appalled and fascinated by the statistics coming out of South Africa - political prisoners pushed out of windows, with fatuous excuses like they slipped on a bar of soap, they thought it was the door, etc. I built that into a fiction, trying to find all the possible reasons why anybody might fall out of a window, and compressed it into 3 1/2 minutes and set these appalling facts up against a very idyllic landscape in order to create irony and paradox. 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, it’s about death - four characteristics that have stayed with me ever since.”
The post-modern experience of watching it on “Windows” Media Player was not lost on me. Peter’s skill is impressive - in making his audience (me) laugh despite trying very hard to take the morbid statistics respectfully.
I guess Microsoft wont be using this as a promotional back-drop for their main product
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Windows (Peter Greenaway)
