Peter Greenaway Masterclass - In The Beginning Was The Image - Part I

[@DawsonSWilliams]

"In the beginning was... the deed," as Goethe was wont to say. Later, Wittgenstein would concur with Goethe. Greenaway is assuredly influenced by post-modern thought (from Barthes to Derrida.) I appreciate his approach to filmmaking (as a painter first and foremost like David Lynch) he's more fixated on visuals than any other component in his work. When I watched his "Drowning by Numbers," it was as if he took me to the world of Dutch Still-Life paintings!

[@webspecific]

I think he wears his arrogance well. He's so transparent when he's wrong. Some of his most beautiful work contains written text on the screen and is derived from text on a page! Not only does he create fantastic books containing text-image combos, he created the films Prospero's Books and The Pillow Book. He is, in reality, easily seduced by the written word. He carries this love-hate affair into the public arena. Peter is a provocateur. He wants the primary weight on the idea of a painter's cinema and more emphasis on the image. I agree with this. Indeed, I favor books in which the image and text co-exist and jockey for supremacy. Arrogance is catching. Sorry for my own.

[@sergonioradze]

გაბუნია რა ენაზე ლაპარაკობს?? ვის მოუვიდა თავში რო მაგას უნდა ეთარგმნა? პირველი ნაწილი ესე უბრალოდ ქვია? მეორე ნაწილი არ არსებობს? ლოლ

[@webspecific]

I agree, in general, don't illustrate the text. And don't explicate the image. The disciplines should retain their uniqueness and when there is yin-yang and/or tension, many interesting outcomes are possible.

[@Ax18NY]

In the beginning was the Word... comes from the Gospel of John. Unbelievable that Greenaway continues to make this mistake in his lectures. I can't believe this pompous, post modernist windbag created two brilliant films like Draughtsman's Contract and Rembrandt's J'accuse. Both have excellent scripts by the way.