Vertical Features Remake (1978)

Directed by

Peter Greenaway

Genre

comedy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

44 min

Rated

PG

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A fictional institute tries to make a short film from an ornithologist's footage of vertical objects in the English countryside. The movie shows four different attempts at this task, with each attempt introduced like a documentary.

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What happens

Vertical Features Remake (1978) is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt to assemble raw footage taken by ornithologist Tulse Luper into a short film, in accordance with his notes and structuralist film theory. The footage consists mostly of vertical landscape features, such as trees and posts, shot in the English landscape. It contains four restoration attempts, each with a documentary-like introduction. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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