Auteurship

For my selected films I chose the works of Peter Greenaway and watched 'The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover', 'The Draughtsman's Contract', and 'Nightwatching'. The most obvious element of auteurship present in his films is the feeling of the film being a play. Most of the shots are all from the same angle on the room. In The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover the shots are almost singularly from the same angle on a set of three spaces, the restaurant, the kitchen, and the outside. Most of the camera movements are sweeping shots moving through walls and most of them are done without cuts. Another obvious element is the set, most of them are very large spaces with no obvious ceilings, they are mostly oversized sets. Peter Greenaway has a very distinct sense of auteurship that really shows in his works.