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UNITED KINGDOM · 1978

Water Wrackets

Peter Greenaway
European Art Cinema experimental cinema water imagery military history fictional warfare visual layering
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Synopsis

Multifarious images of a lake are overlaid with water effects and a narrated history of the campaigns fought by the fictional water-wracket army.

Year1978
CountryUnited Kingdom
DirectorPeter Greenaway
MovementEuropean Art Cinema
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