Peter Greenaway (United Kingdom)

NoTV/Peter Greenaway Tulse Luper VJ Performance (2005 - 2009)

Programme: Greenawaya night Zamek Książąt Pomorskich, Kino Zamek, Korsarzy 34 Saturday (21.03) Start 20:00 NoTV/Peter Greenaway Tulse Luper VJ Performance Stara Lokomotywownia, Czarnieckiego 8 Sunday (22.03) Start 20:00 (Limited amount. For the people  from outside Szczecin, reservation by e-mail: sekretariat@klub13muz.pl or over the phone: +48 91 4347173. Available at the 13 Muz.) The night with movies of Greenawaya Zamek Książąt Pomorskich, Kino Zamek, Korsarzy 34 Sunday (22.03) Start 21:00

Peter Greenaway – born in Wales and educated in London, Peter Greenaway trained as a painter for four years, and started making his own films in 1966. He now lives in  Amsterdam. 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 Boymans 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 Draughtsman¹s 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 and The Pillow-book, The Tulse Luper Suitcases, and most recently by Nightwatching.

NoTV/Peter Greenaway Tulse Luper VJ Performance

On June 17 2005 Peter Greenaway , director of film classics like The Pillow Book, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife  And Her Lover,  Prospero's books and The Tulse Luper Suitcases, demonstrated in Club 11 Amsterdam his first VJ performance during the NoTV CNCDNC visual art club evening. On music by DJ Serge Dodwell (aka Radar),  VJ Greenaway used for his set a special VJ system consisting of a large plasma screen with touchscreen, developed for CNCDNC by BeamSystems. Utilizing this system, Greenaway projected the 92 Tulse Luper stories on the 12 screens of Club 11 in a multi-screen way and mixed the images  live.
The result was amazing: Greenaway rocked the crowd in Amsterdam's VJ temple 11, blending his avantgarde cinematographic imagery (taken from the Tulse Luper Suitcases movie) with the heavy movie score remix by DJ Radar . Mastering the giant touch screen the newborn  realtime image conductor Greenaway provided a totally new experience to the audience: Live Cinema at its best.
The magnificent VJ debut of Peter Greenaway did not go unnoticed. As real time image conductor he finally freed himself from classic cinematographic linearity . With his outstanding cinematographic eye and energetic approach Greenaway won the respect of fellow VJs worldwide and hereby set the pace in the toplevel international VJ scene.
The tremendous succes of this performance made NoTV and Peter Greenaway decide to take the performance to a next level, and bring it to the international audience by starting the official NoTV Peter Greenaway Tulse Luper VJ Tour.

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