In this drawing, Phillips describes the technical aspects of filming the flight of doves for a sequence of TV Dante. A drawing collaged onto the work is a line drawing of doves. Two colored photographic fragments in this work are stills taken from the Dante Inferno video. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this drawing, Phillips describes the techical difficulties that he is experiencing at CAL video in making Dante's Inferno video piece and mentions utilization of the Muybridge doves. Several words are painted on the page including Love, history, starlings and amor. The playing card, the six of hearts, torn into two fragments, is placed on the left side of the drawing, adjacent to the three versions of the word "Amor." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Phillips describes the difficulties and pleasures of working on-line and rehearsing off-line. He writes, "What an enormous pleasure I have in this collaboration with Peter [Greenaway]. Sets me right back on my toes again." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Peter Greenaway has based his movie of 1994 on the story of Sei Shonagon a lady in waiting at the Japanese Heian Dynasty Imperial Court. He adapted this ancient story to a contemporary setting. It is a story of a contemporary Japanese woman who obsessively has her many lovers write texts on her body and she on theirs. "Our attention is drawn to view the film as an ironic demonstration that cinema, even now after hundred years of pretending to be an autonomous activity, is invariably text-driven, and almost wholly supported by literature." This book documents the script of the film and reproduces representative stills from it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a modern day version of a 10th Century Chinese story that has been brilliantly adapted, conceived, written and directed by Greenaway. It features body art using Japanese calligraphy done by Brody Neuenschwander. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a modern day version of a 10th Century Chinese story that has been brilliantly adapted, conceived, written and directed by Greenaway. It features body art using Japanese calligraphy done by Brody Neuenschwander. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.