Vertical Features Remake poster

Quick Info

Rating

7.2/10

Release1978

Runtime0h 45m

StatusReleased

BudgetN/A

RevenueN/A

Production

Arts Council of Great Britain

Movie

Vertical Features Remake

1978

0h 45m

7.2

Documentary

Comedy

Synopsis

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.

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