A Walk Through H
Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 4:14PM
Nicholas Monsour in A Walk Through H, Cultural Ecology, Film and Video, Natural Philosophy, Peter Greenaway, Tulse Luper

A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist (1978)

by Peter Greenaway
Duration: 41 minutes

As the camera pores over 92 mixed media pictures hung in a gallery (all painted exquisitely by Greenaway himself), a pedantic narrator describes his mysterious journey to H, using the pictures as maps. Subtitled The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist, this film seems to be concerned with the migration of a soul (to Heaven or Hell) following the migratory paths of birds (which feature prominently) - but along the way it takes in the curious provenance and intrepretation of each painting, and it documents a bewildering intrigue between the narrator, his mentor Tulse Luper and his rival van Heuten (keeper of the owls at the Amsterdam Zoo).

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