The Stairs: Geneva the Location

by Peter Greenaway

Greenaway recycles his own experience as a director in order to explore such constituents of cinema as location, framing and audience. One hundred wooden staircases with view finders, helicopter into the streets of Geneva, provided passers-by with framed views, thus transforming the city into a movie set.

228 pages, Paperback

First published January 26, 2000

About the author

Peter Greenaway, CBE is a British film director. He is currently professor of cinema studies at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.