Some
selected still images of the Leipzig Studio Filming last week
- (taken from the HDTV frame) - Luper and his activities in
the Bolzano Cafe. The stills and lay-out have been prepared
by Istvan Horkay and his team in Berlin./2004 november 18-20
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M A S T E R C L A S s* i n *L
e i p z i g
“We must reorganize. We have to re-educate the audience
for the post-digital age. My audience is comprised
of three categories. The first category contains the
people who decide after the first five minutes that
they’ve made a mistake and leave. The second category
is the people who give the film a chance and leave
annoyed after 40 minutes. The third category includes
the people that watch the whole film and return to
see it again. If I’m able to persuade 33% of the audience
to stay, then I can say that I’ve succeeded
“We
have to move away from the concept of screening in
cinemas. This can be achieved with the new technologies.
I enjoy my films and the fact that I can include you
in them as well. Cinema is only a small part of a
much greater phenomenon”. “We transcend the barriers
of culture. DVDs’ image quality and longevity provide
us with new prospects. They are a powerful medium.
I think they were invented especially for me”
On
Tuesday, November 23rd, the Thessaloniki Film Festival
honoured the subversive
director
Peter Greenaway with a Golden
Alexander Award
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LupersResume
There are three layers to the project, like transparent skins
of an onion, lying one on top of the other, each one showing
through the other.1. Luper’s story.The background and incidents
and events of Luper’s imprisonment in the Bolzano cafe for
eleven weeks, from May to August 1945, where he writes the
Gold Bar stories, and invents a fictitious life for Harpsch.
The day by day events of this Luper imprisonment can be related
to an exact calendar of dates, days, weather reports -and
maybe a day-by-day textual and visual account of the events
of the post-war world.2. Harpsch’s story
The story of Harpsch’s life, invented by Luper, most pertinently
an account of Harpsch’s robbery of thegoldbars and subsequent
journey to Bolzano.
3. The 92 Gold Stories.
The 92 stories (plus 9 others) that tell of gold appropriated
by supporters of European Fascism from the ThirdReich’s victims,
mainly jews.
“SETS”There
are many “sets” or ambience/location backgrounds to the narrative,
related, again as above, to the three layers of plotting.
And these can be manufactured by multiple still images manipulated
in verysophisticated ways by Photo-shop techniques, often
simulating movement.
Onto these we will insert pieces of moving film activity,
either to be shot or from the copious materialalready filmed
for the Tulse Luper films.
COPYRIGHT 2004 BY PETER GREENAWAY +ISTVAN HORKAY +INTUITPICTURES.
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