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Vertical Features Remake (1978) is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt to assemble raw footage taken by ornithologist Tulse Luper into a short film, in accordance with his notes and structuralist film theory. The footage consists mostly of vertical landscape features, such as trees and posts, shot in the English landscape. It contains four restoration attempts, each with a documentary-like introduction: Vertical Features Remake 121 images, divided into eleven groups of eleven images. The first image is... MORE

Vertical Features Remake (1978) is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt to assemble raw footage taken by ornithologist Tulse Luper into a short film, in accordance with his notes and structuralist film theory. The footage consists mostly of vertical landscape features, such as trees and posts, shot in the English landscape. It contains four restoration attempts, each with a documentary-like introduction: Vertical Features Remake 121 images, divided into eleven groups of eleven images. The first image is eleven frames long, and each successive image is one frame longer than the proceeding one. This means that the 121nd image is precisely 131 frames long. Each of the eleven images within a group share the same locality, time of day and season. There are only natural, diegetic sounds. Vertical Features Remake 2 121 images, divided into eleven groups of eleven images. Each image in the first group lasts for eleven frames, each image in the second group lasts for twenty-two frames, each image in the third group lasts for thirty-three frames, and so on. This structure retains the progressive elongation of LESS