The works of Greenaway are «total» experiences, in which painting, theatre, literature, music and new technology come together. Although his roots go back to the structuralism of the 1970s, his cinema has progressively opened itself to an interdisciplinary neo-baroque contamination with surprising results. His new cinematographic-multimedia phase, which began in 2000 with his project about Tulse Luper and continued with Nightwatching and Peopling the Palaces, is based on a simple consideration: «cinema is dead. The future is digital.» Thanks to a collaboration with the director that goes back many years, De Gaetano traces Greenaway’s career in this pondered updating of the book that was first published in 1995. Text in Italian.
D. De Gaetano, Peter Greenaway. Film video installations, Lindau 2008, € 24