Filmmaker extraordinaire Peter Greenaway is in conversation with Robert Enright, Editor-at-large for Border Crossings magazine at the Perimeter Institute, Waterloo Ontario

Filmmaker Peter Greenaway. Image: lavenaria.it

Wednesday, March 26, 7:30 p.m.

At the Perimeter Institute’s Mike Lazaridis Theatre of Ideas

Tickets: $20 each

Order online HERE

Or call 519.883.4480 (2-6 p.m. Monday to Friday)

A scene from Nightwatching, 2007. Image: vjmorton.files.wordpress.com

In 2005, KW|AG (The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery) and the Perimeter Institute formed a partnership to bring cutting edge visual art presentations by distinguished artists and cultural figures to Waterloo Region.

Peter Greenaway is an artistic polymath: film director, visual artist, opera librettist, multi-media performer, and now VJ.

Perhaps best known for his 1989 masterpiece, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Greenaway’s films are visual and intellectual mazes, as puzzling as they are captivating. Watch the trailer of the film here:

His early studies as a painter are everywhere evident in his films, as is his deep involvement in literature. Prospero’s Books (1991) is his filmic re-imagining of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, while his collaboration with artist Tom Phillips on a TV mini-series dramatized a number of the cantos from Dante’s “Inferno“. Peter Greenaway has used his art as a way of exploring, with precision and elegance, our most extreme emotions and actions.

For the KW/AG website, please click HERE.