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.

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