Renowned for artistically slanted works such as The Draughtsman’s Contract and The Pillow Book with little consideration for mainstream conventions, Peter Greenaway’s discussion of cinema’s evolution and future was less austere than expected.

With a biting sense of humour and rush of firmly held opinions, Greenaway is a captivating public speaker. In essence, his argument is that cinema to the present day has been a disappointment as an art form; its ultra-passive illustrative text at odds with the growing multitude of media forms and sense of interaction that is experienced by contemporary audiences elsewhere. Despite his authoritative knowledge, interpreting what his ideas will mean in practice to a mass audience was trickier: his Tulse Luper VJ performance surely an indication of the future rather than the future itself.