Filmmaker Peter Greenaway is giving a multimedia presentation/lecture this morning at the Clicks or Morta?r symposium, and if you go to Pixel Palace RIGHT NOW, you can watch it live. I’ll investigate whether or not the video is archived after the show is over, and if so, I’ll post it here.

I discovered the Greenaway presentation via the Documentally Twitter stream, which has been disseminating Greenaway’s best quotes live. Examples: “Peter Greenaway thinks the remote control shot the cinema dead.”; “Peter Greenaway thinks film festivals are a waste of time.. ‘We need to put new wine in new bottles’”. Etc.

Clicks or Mortar? is a one-day event in the UK devoted to imagining the future of cinema as a concept and as a public space. From their website:

Digital projection is turning cinemas into spaces that can support every sort of screen-based creative work, extending their usefulness far beyond simply showing films.  In the future they may be transformed from ‘picture palaces’ into ‘pixel palaces’, offering a home to games players, interactive performance artists and moving image makers, supporting new forms of film storytelling and, most significantly, engaging audiences who may well be turning from passive consumers of culture into active participants in its creation.

UPDATE: I’ve installed the Ustream embed after the jump.
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