A TV Dante

A TV Dante is an experimental miniseries directed by Tom Phillips and legendary filmmaker Peter Greenaway It covers eight of the thirtyfour cantos in Dante Alighieris Inferno part of his 14th century epic poem The Divine Comedy The eight cantos of the film are not conventionally dramatised rather they are illuminated with layered and juxtaposed imagery while the text is read entirely in talking head fashion and punctuated with a kaleidoscopic blend of both newly shot and archival footage