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Peter Greenaway and Tom Philips won the Prix Italia for A TV Dante, their ambitious project to produce a video version Dantes Inferno. Greenaway was first inspired by artist Tom Phillips illustrated translation of the work and they collaborated on this, the first eight Cantos of the work, using all the state-of-the-art technological resources available to the electronic media at the time. The eight Cantos of the film are not conventionally dramatised, rather they are illuminated with layered and juxtaposed imagery and a soundtrack which comments, counterpoints and clarifies. There are visual footnotes delivered by relevant expert authorities, and these often perform the function of narration as well as illustration. The result is a dazzling video journey through Dante's underworld. The press was unanimous in welcoming their bold new approach to the art of television when A TV Dante was transmitted on Channel 4 in 1990: That rare and beautiful thing, an attempt to do something new with the medium. (The Observer) Nothing quite like it has been seen on television before. The extraordinary, multi-layered images on the screen are not so much state-of-the-art video but the state after that. (The Times) A dazzling and inventive piece of video-image making...an eye-stitching use of television. (The Guardian)
BONUS FILM M is for Man, Music, Mozart
Using advanced video postproduction techniques of its day, this music theatre film is set in a 16th century anatomy theatre. With visual references to Hogarth, Vesalius and Arcimboldo, it explores the mysteries of the central letter of the alphabet: M, and the creation of man, music and Mozart. This incarnation of man and Mozart is taken by dancer Ben Craft, with apocryphal texts by Vesalius, Schultz and Eisenstein sung by jazz singer Astrid Seriese, to Andriessen s powerful jazz/funk music performed by the Dutch ensemble, De Volharding.
Music by Louis Andriessen
Written and Directed by Peter Greenaway
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Short Film, SYNOPSIS: The first eight cantos of Dante's Inferno (up to the entrance to the city of Dis). The text is read entirely in "talking head" fashion, and punctuated with a kaleidoscopic blend of both newly shot and archival footage. ...A TV Dante: The Inferno Cantos I-VIII ( Peter Greenaway's A TV Dante: The Inferno Cantos 1 - 8 ) ( Dante: The Inferno )
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Peter Greenaway likes to push the boundaries of his art. A long way from Draughtsman's Contract, these two dazzlingly experimental video works are crisply presented on this DVD. They're not for everyone, although A TV Dante is designed to be accessible, didactic even, through the frequent insertion of talking footnotes. Also, don't let the jarring score for M Is for Man... put you off.
You'll probably be screaming for more after you get through these films. Let's hope they follow.
You'll probably be screaming for more after you get through these films. Let's hope they follow.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
So pleased this has been released on DVD. I remember taping every episode from TV when it was originally aired so to obtain this in DVD format is such a pleasure. The story is familiar to most and remains perhaps the most important piece of medieval literature written. This presentation covers the first 8 cantos as Dante slowly descends into the Circles of Hell which in itself presents the main problem for the creators of this film. How do you convey Hell and the horrors contained within? Later films tried to present Hell with flashy CGI (i.e. 'Constantine') but, although often enjoyable in other ways, do not come close to this production of showing the chaos, despair & evil that mere mention of the word 'Hell' conjures. The images confuse, repulse & terrify, and surely that is the point.
If you are a person who actually thinks & ponders this DVD will rank among your most precious.
If you are a person who actually thinks & ponders this DVD will rank among your most precious.
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