TOYS

Résumé :
Greenaway’s encyclopedic saga of a fictional country continues with a descriptive catalog of children’s toys. At the turn of the Millennium Historians attempted to make a fresh start at keeping a record of a rejuvenated world. They promised to write a full history of the years of the coming century. To start with they needed a new population. Once they had recorded their knowledge of post-war human conceptions in Book Zero, the Historians could go on to record the New Births in Book One, and Names in Book Two, and then perhaps Childhood Diseases in Book Three and then perhaps TOYS in Book Four. In the last decade of the century there would be Historians to compile Book Ninety-Six on Fatal Illnesses, Book Ninety-Seven would record Deaths, Book Ninety-Eight would record Funerals & Memorials, Book Ninety-Nine would record Last Wills & Testaments and Book One Hundred would record Ghosts. Here is Book 4 to record TOYS. Peter Greenaway is a British film director, screen-writer and artist. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Mannerism painting in particular. Common traits in his films are the scenic composition and illumination and the contrasts of costume and nudity, nature and architecture, furniture and people, sexual pleasure and painful death. He trained as a painter for four years, and started making his own films in 1966. He has continued to make cinema in a great variety of ways, which has also informed his curatorial work and the making of exhibitions and installations. He has made 15 feature films and some 50 short-films and documentaries, been regularly nominated for the Film Festival Competitions of Cannes, Venice and Berlin. (....) And he writes books.
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