H is for House

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🎙️ EPISODE 411: 03.01.22 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟎-𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞 RANKING GREENAWAY 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 Again, here is a film about routines and being obsessed with routines. It begins: "a naturalist of very fixed habits followed the sun around his house" (what a great sentence). Then one day the world starts spinning a different way and you can only live in the shadows. The rest of the short plays out as a list recitation. Other words "H" stands for, both rare and common. Other letters too. This is the most dynamic one yet, utilizing a bright, fast-paced collection of shots — nature, a mother and daughter, animals, spinning records, mundane items in and around a country house — as well as jaunty classical score which comes and goes, before a brief return to a story, stories, somewhere between the list of words. It’s about looking, observation, making sense of what we see, all we see or think we see, and so much in that and in between which we cannot understand.

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⫷ EPISODE 411C - (YOU ARE HERE) - EPISODE 411E ⫸

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A short film by Peter Greenaway, available in the collection GREENAWAY: THE SHORTS. Returning to the house in his earlier film Windows, Greenaway demonstrates his love of the English countryside and displays a distinctive (if rare) autobiographical self with H Is for House. Envisioned as a living, breathing dictionary on film, this epistemological survey of the letter “H” represents Greenaway at his warmest and most playful. It was released on January 1, 1976.