Peter Greenaway, was born on 5 April 1942 and is a Welsh film director, screenwriter and artist.
16 Facts About Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway's films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Flemish painting in particular.
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Peter Greenaway's family left South Wales when he was three years old and settled in Woodford, Essex.
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Peter Greenaway attended Churchfields Junior School and later Forest School in nearby Walthamstow.
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At an early age Peter Greenaway decided on becoming a painter.
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Peter Greenaway has said that Resnais's Last Year in Marienbad had been the most important influence upon his own filmmaking.
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In 1962, Peter Greenaway began studies at Walthamstow College of Art, where a fellow student was musician Ian Dury.
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Peter Greenaway trained as a muralist for three years; he made his first film, Death of Sentiment, a churchyard furniture essay filmed in four large London cemeteries.
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In 1989, Peter Greenaway collaborated with artist Tom Phillips on a television serial A TV Dante, dramatising the first few cantos of Dante's Inferno.
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Peter Greenaway is currently professor of cinema studies at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
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Peter Greenaway presented the ambitious The Tulse Luper Suitcases, a multimedia project that resulted in three films, a website, two books, a touring exhibition, and a shorter feature which reworked the material of the first three films.
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Peter Greenaway contributed to Visions of Europe, a short film collection by different European Union directors; his British entry is The European Showerbath.
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On 17 June 2005, Peter Greenaway appeared for his first VJ performance during an art club evening in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with music by DJ Serge Dodwell, as a backdrop, 'VJ' Peter Greenaway used for his set a special system consisting of a large plasma screen with laser controlled touchscreen to project the ninety-two Tulse Luper stories on the twelve screens of "Club 11", mixing the images live.
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In 2006, Peter Greenaway began a series of digital video installations, Nine Classical Paintings Revisited, with his exploration of Rembrandt's Night Watch in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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On 30 June 2008, after much negotiation, Peter Greenaway staged a one-night performance 'remixing' da Vinci's The Last Supper in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan to a select audience of dignitaries.
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Peter Greenaway exhibited his digital exploration of The Wedding at Cana by Paolo Veronese as part of the 2009 Venice Biennial.