Vertical Features Remake
Dec 01 1978
•1h 45m
•Documentary, Comedy
Vertical Features Remake 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.
Cast
See allColin Cantlie
Narrator (voice)
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