Dear Phone
Where does text end and film begins? What does it mean to convey a story through film and what happens when you start playing around with what constitutes film and viewer’s experience? What happens when script pages become pictures, when a phone booth becomes the main character and film a game?
- United Kingdom
- 1976, 17 min
- Director: Peter Greenaway
- Contacts: BFI
Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway (1942, UK) was not educated in film, but classical painting and it really shows in his work. In 1965, he started working as film editor and director for the Central Office of Information, creating a large number of experimental short films before making his feature debut The Falls followed by The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982), The Belly of an Architect (1987), Drowning by Numbers (1988), The Cook, the Thief, his Wife & her Lover (1989) or Prospero’s Books (1991) that brought him recognition from the critics, festival glory and attention of film fans.