Peter Greenaway Arrives In Wroclaw

by Sandy Mandelberger, Online Dailies Editor

Peter Greenaway, one of the most important contemporary film stylists, arrived today as a guest of the ERA New Horizons International Film Festival. The director will attend the Polish premiere of his latest film REMBRANDT’S J’ACCUSE!, presented within the FILMS ABOUT ART International Competition on 26 and 27 July. The documentary meditation on the influences of Rembrandt on modern-day filmmaking had its world premiere at last year's Pusan International Film Festival and has been travelling the film festival circuit ever since.

Today, Greenaway will also attend a special screening of his previous film, NIGHTWATCHING, which was shot in Wrocław. This first documentary on the connection between fine arts and film art had its premiere at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, where it won the Open Prize for best artistic achievement. Tomorrow, Greenaway will hold an original multi-media lecture about the conndocuections between painting and cinema, entitled "Visual literacy - painting and cinema". Unmissable.