The Tulse Luper Suitcases

The Tulse Luper Suitcases ist ein ambitioniertes audiovisuelles Projekt des Regisseurs Peter Greenaway (gb/nl). Filme, DVDs, Fernsehen, Web, Bücher, interaktive DVDs und eine Ausstellung bilden den Rahmen für die ungewöhnlichen Abenteuer des Tulse Luper. Luper verbringt zwischen 1928 und 1989 viel Zeit in Gefängnissen, von Wales bis in die Mandschurei, in denen er die unterschiedlichsten Kunstprojekte entwickelt. Berühmt geworden, wird ihm in New York eine Konferenz gewidmet, bei der auch seine 92 Koffer ausgestellt werden.

Peter Greenaway wird über den Hintergrund und den Gesamtentwurf des Tulse Luper Suitcases Projekts sprechen. Die Kasander Film Company präsentiert die erste Entwicklungsphase der Tulse Luper Website und ihren offiziellen Start. Studenten des Instituts für Theaterwissenschaft an der Universität Leipzig – die erste deutsche „Luper Behörde“ – zeigen die Resultate ihrer biografischen Untersuchungen im Tulse Luper Office.

The Tulse Luper Suitcases in Germany project is a collaboration with the following institutions:

- producer Kasander Film Company (Rotterdam/NL)

- German co-producer Net Entertainment (Berlin/DE)

- Mitteldeutschen Medienförderung GmbH (MDM)

Educational institutions in Germany are:

- Martin Luther Universität, Halle

- Hochschule für Kunst und Design Burg Giebiechenstein, Halle

- Universität von Leipzig

BIOGRAPHY

Even though Peter Greenaway is an Englishman, he was actually born in Newport in Wales (his mother is Welsh) on April 5th, 1942. The family left Wales when Greenaway was three years-old and moved to Essex, England. At an early age he decided he wanted to be a painter. He developed an interest in European cinema, focusing on the films of Antonioni, Bergman, Godard, Pasolini and Resnais. In 1962 he started studying at the Walthamstow College of Art, where amongst his fellow students was musician Ian Dury (who Greenaway would later cast in The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover). Greenaway would spend the next three years there, and at the time of arriving there he made his first film, Death of Sentiment. It was about church yard furniture, crosses, flying angels, typography on grave stones, and was filmed in four large London cemeteries. In 1965 he joined the Central Office of Information (COI), where he remained for the next fifteen years as a film editor and then a director. In 1966 he made a film called Train, composed of footage of the last steam train arriving at Waterloo Station (directly behind the COI), structured into an abstract Man Ray ballet mécanique, all cut to a musique concrete track. He also made a film called Tree in 1966, the tree in question was surrounded by concrete outside the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank in London. The 1970s would see Greenaway getting much more serious with his filmmaking. In 1978 he made Vertical Features Remake and A Walk Through H. The former is an examination of arithmetical structure and the latter a journey through various maps. In 1980 Greenaway delivered his most ambitious and extraordinary film of his career, The Falls - a mammoth, fantastical, absurdist encyclopedia of flight-associated material all relating to 92 victims of the Violent Unknown Event (VUE). The 1980s would see some of Greenaway's best films, The Draughtsman's Contact in 1982, A Zed & Two Noughts in 1985, The Belly of an Architect in 1987, Drowning by Numbers in 1988, and his most successful (in the mainstream) film in 1989, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. The 1990s brought the visually spectacular Prospero's Books in 1991, the controversial The Baby of Mâcon in 1993, The Pillow Book in 1996, and 8 1/2 Women in 1999.

Greenaway is currently working on his most ambitious film project, The Tulse Luper Suitcases, a multimedia extravaganza featuring innovative film techniques. In Greenaway's mind we haven't seen any cinema yet. His ambition (as stated above) is to try and reinvent it. The world of cinema would be a duller place without him.

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