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GREENMAN

1997 10′ Dance Film
ACE / BBC Dance for the Camera Series
This film continues director Peter Anderson and choreographer Rosemary Lee’s exploration of the human figure in the landscape.
GREENMAN is their second collaboration, their first being BOY.
Green Man Dance Film

S Y N O P S I S

A solitary man in an attic room. He paces and listens intently, stooping and ducking beneath his heavy coat. Something joins him in this empty tower – a magical companion, revealing secrets that transport him from stone to leaves to bog. Is it an old friend or a Pandora’s box – should he stalk it or embrace it?

Anderson’s distinctive painterly compositions combine with Lee’s expressive choreography to create an enthralling character in a bleak, unpredictable world.

R E V I E W S

‘Ostensibly about a man alone in a stone tower, the work’s power evolves from the succession of unanticipated discoveries that he makes going through a magical desk. The colours, textures and shapes of natural phenomena – leaves, nuts, stones, water – evolve into a dramatic kaleidoscope of evocative images.’
Dance Magazines, New York

C R E D I T S

director
PETER ANDERSON

choreographer
ROSEMARY LEE

performer
SIMON WHITEHEAD

director of photography
DAVID SCOTT

music & sound design
GRAEME MILLER

art director
LOUISE BELSON

editor
JOHN MIDDLEWICK

producers
ANNE BERESFORD
MARGARET WILLIAMS
MJW PRODUCTIONS