A Walk Through H

Greenaway

A Walk Through H is perhaps the most ambitious of the bunch, certainly the longest and probably the most packed with facts, even unto the point of exhaustion. It's a journey through a series of maps of every description, probably made by an ornithologist who sees, celebrates and understands the world through his own interest and discipline in birds. Each map fades as the traveller uses it, suggesting that the maps were intended for him alone and that his journey is unrepeatable. The secondary title of the film, The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist, might well indicate that the journey taken is his last, from the point of death to his own particular ornithological Hell or Heaven.