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Five Lessons from Peter Greenaway’s Master Class

Fabiola Aguilar Díaz (@panoramafunky), jefa de información

In the 13th edition of FICM it is an honor to present the iconic director Peter Greenaway. In an eloquent master class at the Teatro Rubén Romero in Morelia, the filmmaker gave generous advice on filmmaking, and discussed his relationship with painting and his new film Eisenstein en Guanajuato (2015).

5. On cinema and painting: Cinema is not a product of the imagination alone. I’ve always thought that from my training as a painter, painting is a solitary task – it’s a singular entity. Cinema, on the other contrary, requires the combination of people, money and a gregarious life. I’ve tried to maintain a pictorial approach to cinema. Perhaps in an extravagant discourse of my work, my films have always sought to make paintings with soundtracks.

You can see the complete master class: here