Not Mozart
Not Mozart
Production country:
gb
Year:
1991
Duration:
30'
Edition:
1993
Format:
film/video
"M " - the middle letter of the alphabet, and thus, inescapably, the fixed point of Greenaway's encyclopedic mania. Here he uses a typically rigorous system of images and extravagant decor to develop a very personal story of creation on several simultaneous levels - starting from the letter "M". For when the gods used "M " to create Man, they necessarily had to fill him with the spirit of Movement, and the best way to do that was with Music - and if you're going to create Music, you have no choice but to add a Mozart as well. A celebration of creation that ends on the altar of fertility.