Peter Greenaway shorts
Explore the filmmaking journey of one of Britain’s most acclaimed directors.
Before winning widespread renown and recognition with features such as The Draughtsman's Contract (1982), Peter Greenaway enjoyed a long and fascinating apprenticeship working in shortform and nonfiction film for a variety of institutions.Beginning his career at the Central Office of Information in 1965, Greenway would edit and direct a huge number of magazine-style items, over a fifteen-year period, for longrunning series such as This Week in Britain (Savile Row, Eddie Kidd, Leeds Castle). While honing his craft there, he simultaneously began to produce his own, self-financed shorts, such as Intervals (1973) and Windows (1974), through which he could further explore some of his idiosyncratic obsessions such as landscape, maps, diagrams, grids and systems of classification.Later, his experimental and ground-breaking techniques would chime with the remit of the BFI's Production Board and the Arts Council, which funded his more complex and ambitious shorts, A Walk Through H and Vertical Features Remake (both 1978), subsequently leading to his first feature under the Production Board, The Falls, in 1980, and his eventual emergence as one of the key figures in British cinema during the '80s and beyond.
