A FRAME ENCLOSES. The sides of the screen are fences. You can say that a film is a list of enclosures, one after another, though some will disagree with you strongly.
It’s important to know that the word enclosure has a history—the British transformation of common land to private property from the seventeenth century. Enclosures are one of the reasons why it is hard to know what the common looks like.
The most common word associated with Peter Greenaway’s films is painterly. “I have a fascination with paintings that instruct,” he writes, “paintings based on diagrams and plans, charts and maps, paintings that number and count and index and list and identify.”
1. Strange Attachments
In the beginning of Peter Greenaway’s , a painter,
