Peter Greenaway: “Nine Classic Paintings Revisited”

“Nine Classic Paintings Revisited” is the second of two lectures presented by filmmaker Peter Greenaway as the 2010-2011 Avenali Chair in the Humanities at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley. Greenaway talks about a series of video installations he calls Nine Classic Paintings Revisited, in which he applied his often controversial vision to The Last Supper, The Wedding at Cana and other famous artworks.90 minutes.

Best known for such films as The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982), The Cook, the Thief, his Wife & her Lover (1989), The Pillow Book (1996), The Tulse Luper Suitcases (2003-2004), and Nightwatching (2007), Greenaway has worked more recently on numerous exhibitions and installations in Europe, from Venice’s Palazzo Fortuny and Barcelona’s Joan Miró Gallery to Rotterdam’s Boymans van Beuningen Gallery and Paris’ Louvre.