Intervals

Introduction

One of Greenaway's earliest films, Intervals was shot in Venice during the first days of 1969. It is a thought-provoking montage of street scenes shot in black and white.

Images of small shops crowded with people alternate with portraits of individuals going about their daily tasks apparently unaware that they are being observed.

Intervals was the first Greenaway film to gain distribution and is made in the structuralist style, paralleling the films of Malcom LeGrice, Peter Gidal and Hollis Frampton with its repetitions of sequences, variations in editing rhythm and a soundtrack which contrasts dramatically with the image.

Press quotes

"A wonderful seven-minute exercise in space and motion in which we watch a quick succession of unobserving Venetians passing in front of shops and signs, establishing relationships of which they are mostly unaware." LA WEEKLY

"A genuine wit with a grand imagination." NEW YORK TIMES