Experience the official trailer for "Prospero's Books Revisited," an experimental digital art film that reimagines the 24 magical books from Peter Greenaway's iconic cinematic masterpiece.
This project is an artistic homage that bridges the genius of Shakespeare's The Tempest with the limitless, surreal power of generative AI. Each book is a living universe of forbidden knowledge, mythological nightmares, and cosmic magic.
What will you discover when you unlock Prospero's library?
This is where Shakespeare's magic meets digital art.
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00:00Knowing I love my books, he furnished me from my own library with volumes that I prize above my duedom.
00:21A book of water. This is a waterproof covered book, which has lost its colour by much contact with water.
00:28It is full of investigative drawings, an exploratory text written on many different thicknesses of paper.
00:34There are drawings of every conceivable watery association. Seas, tempests, rain, snow, clouds, lakes, waterfalls, streams, canals, watermills, shipwrecks, floods and tears.
00:47As the pages are turned, the watery elements are often animated. There are rippling waves and slanting storms.
00:53The drawings are all made by one hand. Perhaps this is a lost collection of drawings by da Vinci.
01:01Bound into a book by the King of France at Amboise, and bought by the Milanese dukes to give to Prospero as a getting present.
01:07Of whence I am, nor that I am more better than Prospero, master of a full poor cell, and thy no greater father.
01:20A book of mirrors. Bound in a gold cloth and very heavy. This book has some eighty shining mirrored pages. Some opaque. Some translucent. Some manufactured with silvered papers. Some covered in a film of mercury. That will roll off the page unless treated cautiously. Some mirrors simply reflect the reader. Some reflect.
01:38The reader as he will be in a year's time. As he would be. If he were a child. A monster. Or an angel.
01:45One mirror constantly live. One mirror sees the world backwards. Another offside down. One mirror holds on to its reflections as frozen moments infinitely recall. One mirror simply reflects another mirror across a page.
01:52A book of mythologies. This is a large book. It is bound in a shining yellow cloth that when polished,
01:57the year's time is a long-term and the year's time. A long-term and the year's time as he would be.
01:59If he were a child. A monster. Or an angel. One mirror constantly live. One mirror constantly live. One mirror sees the world backwards. Another offside down. One mirror holds on to its reflections as frozen moments infinitely recall.
02:11One mirror simply reflects another mirror across a page. A book of mythologies. This is a large book. It is bound in a shining yellow cloth that when polished,
02:21gleaves like brass. It is a compendium of mythologies with all their various and alternative tellings. Cycle after cycle of
02:29inter-connecting tales of gods and men from all the known world. From the icy North to the deserts of Africa. With explanatory readings and
02:39symbolic interpretations. With this book as a concordance, Prospero can collect together if he so wishes all those gods and men who have
02:48achieved fame or infamy through water. Or through fire. Through the sea. In association with horses. Or trees. Or pigs. Or swans. Or mirth.
02:56Awake dear heart. Awake. Come on we'll visit Caliban who never yields us kind answer.
03:08This island's mine. This island's mine. By Sycorax my mother. Which thou takest from me.
03:16A primer of the small stars. This is a small black, never covered navigational aid. It is full of folded maps of the night skies that tumble out. Belying the modest size of the book.
03:36It is a depiction of the sky. Reflected in the seas of the world when they are still. For it is complete with blanks.
03:46Where the landmuses of the globe have interrupted the oceanic mirror.
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