31/08/2003 - Peter Greenaway continues his travels through the maze of Tulse Luper’s world, with the third part of his series, shown as a special event in the ‘Controcorrente’ section

The journey of Peter Greenaway through the intriguing universe of the writer Tulse Luper continues with The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp, presented yesterday as a special event in the ‘Controcorrente’ section.
The British director Peter Greenaway is plunging ever deeper into the labyrinth in search of a new genre to take over from the traditional concept of cinema, which he considers to be dead. Once again he uses his hallmarks of close attention to visual images, numbers and a taste for quotations in his third film, part of his epic work on the world of Tulse Luper.
The film doesn’t really have a plot per se: it’s a collage of images, voices and sounds put together to create an increasingly complex enigma, which often slides into a pretentious intellectual game that is not easily decipherable.

"Cinema is a weak form of narration that can only be revitalised by writing, and by images that create an atmosphere", says Greenaway, "The Tulse Luper Suitcases will be released on DVD, I prefer this medium to film for the interactivity it offers".
The series was originally due to be divided into 16 episodes (corresponding to the number of times Luper is imprisoned,) then it went to 3 and now it will probably be expanded to encompass 5 films. The next chapter in the series will be presented next February, during the Berlin Internationale Filmfestspiele.

(Translated from Italian)