Garden Clippings: Finally, PFA presents your garden variety program! This amalgam of film clips, from feature films to avant-garde outtakes, explores the gardens of cinema-and you'll be surprised by the number and variety of key scenes in cinema that do take place in a garden! Take them as dreamscapes, as gardens of the mind, or at face value, there's something going on here. We're cultivating a theory. (c. 70 mins) In The Draughtsman's Contract, a seventeenth-century landowner, Mrs. Herbert, hires a noted landscape architect, Mr. Neville, to create a series of drawings of her house and gardens; as payment, Neville may sleep with his patroness, once for each drawing. A technical virtuoso, Neville produces detailed, carefully composed drawings. But, inexplicably, unwanted objects creep into his scenes. And as the harmony of his drawings is disturbed, so is his ordered (outlined-in-contract) life. "In Greenaway's films much of what appears familiar becomes unfamiliar through his elaborate, rigorous application of a defined structure. Thus it should not be surprising that his Restoration Comedy becomes a Restoration Mystery as he investigates realism and illusionism..." (Kathy Geritz). Greenaway's garden is filled with wry touches, like the ivy-strewn human statues (one solution for landowners who could not afford statuary) which echo the central irony that a patron's purchase is actually the artist himself.