"He has other reputations as well—as an academic, as a maker of curious artifacts, as a cataloguer of the bizarre and as a librarian of the absurd." Peter Greenaway might well have been describing himself in this thumbnail sketch of Canton Remodell, a character in an unmade project. Before his international arthouse hits THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER and PROSPERO"S BOOKS, Greenaway made a series of highly inventive films that established all the obsessions that run through his later work. The content of the six playful shorts featured on this disc varies widely—from the condensed, wry history of 37 people who have fallen to their deaths from windows (WINDOWS), to a sequence of 92 maps to guide a dead ornithologist on his way into the afterlife (A WALK THROUGH H) set to a thrilling score by award-winning composer Michael Nyman (THE PIANO). All of these quirkily delightful works—which also include INTERVALS, WATER WRACKETS, H IS FOR HOUSE, and DEAR PHONE—take great pleasure in outlandish detail, fake erudition and corkscrew narratives. This disc is also available as part of GREENAWAY: THE EARLY FILMS box set.