Stairs 1 Geneva

Stairs 1 Geneva

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 28, 1994

Runtime

1h 47m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Stairs 1 Geneva

Director

Peter Greenaway

Description

The film comprises one hundred sequences showing a location in the city of Geneva, Switzerland. In 1994, over a period of one hundred days, one hundred white wooden staircases were installed around the city to be climbed by the public. At the top of each staircase was a simple hole framing a "living picture postcard", a perfect "cinema-image by Peter Greenaway" accompanied by a commentary of one sentence in French and English, printed below the viewfinder. Greenaway's idea was to create a reflection on location in cinema and to "take films out of the theatres".