Early Films 1

Introduction

Before his international arthouse hit The Draughtsman's Contract, Peter Greenaway made a series of highly inventive and witty short films.

The content of the six films varies widely - the potted history of 37 people who have fallen to their deaths from windows (Windows), a sequence of 92 maps to guide a dead ornithologist on his way into the afterlife (A Walk Through H) - but all the films are immensely playful and take pleasure in cataloguing the absurd. Composer Michael Nyman started his career with Peter Greenaway and contributes a thrilling score to A Walk Through H.