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The Belly of an Architect

Peter Greenaway - The Belly of an Architect
An American architect goes to Rome to oversee an exhibition on Étienne-Louis Boullée, a French architect from the Eighteenth Century. Accompanied by his young pregnant wife, he soon complains of abdominal pain... This film is a tribute to the figure of the circle, either in Boullée's spherical constructions or through the image of the belly bearing death (the architect's cancer) and life (his pregnant wife).
Peter Greenaway (born, 1942 in Newport, Wales, lives and works in Amsterdam) trained as a painter for four years, and started making his own films in 1966. He has continued to make cinema in a great variety of ways, which has also informed his curatorial work and the making of exhibitions and installations in Europe from the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice and the Joan Miro Gallery in Barcelona to the Boijmans van Beuningen Gallery in Rotterdam and the Louvre in Paris. He has made 12 feature films and some 50 short-films and documentaries, been regularly nominated for the Film Festival Competitions of Cannes, Venice and Berlin, published books, written opera librettos, and collaborated with composers Michael Nyman, Glen Branca, Wim Mertens, Jean-Baptiste Barriere, Philip Glass, Louis Andriessen, Borut Krzisnik and David Lang. His first narrative feature film, The Draughtsman's Contract, completed in 1982, received great critical acclaim and established him internationally as an original film maker, a reputation consolidated by the films, The Cook, the Thief, his Wife & her Lover, The Pillow Book, and The Tulse Luper Suitcases.
 
published in March 2000
English edition
21,5 x 18,5 cm (softcover)
128 pages (32 color ill.)
 
23.00
 
ISBN : 978-2-906571-68-6
EAN : 9782906571686
 
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