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🎙️ EPISODE 411: 03.01.22 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟎-𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞 RANKING GREENAWAY 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 This is pure Peter Greenaway list-based humor. A mockumentary recollecting on 37 deaths, all inhabitants of a small town, all perished by falls out of WINDOWS. In just three minutes we can glean the coming genius of the three-hour The Falls a decade later. This hallmark of Greenaway's first shorts — turning the minutiae of detail (lists within lists) on its head to cut at the absolute horror which is the impossibility of knowing all things — would continue throughout his career, but never quite as plainly and perfectly funny as captured in the early work..

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

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A short film by Peter Greenaway, available in the collection GREENAWAY: THE SHORTS. Greenaway goes macabre—and slightly political—in this darkly funny early short. Inspired by a 1960s headline involving a rash of mysterious fatalities among South African inmates, Windows wryly unspools the stories of 37 people who fell to their deaths from windows. Juxtaposing these often-humorous statistics recounted in deadpan voiceover with the carefully composed images from an idealized country home, this is Greenaway at his most absurd and perceptive. It was released on January 1, 1975.