Tulse Luper

Tulse Luper (full name: Tulse Henry Purcell Luper ) is invented by Peter Greenaway figure he used in several of his works.

So it appears in his early films Vertical Features Remake and A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist, as well as in the 1980 film shot The Falls. In addition Luper plays the most important role in The Tulse Luper Suitcases, an ambitious multimedia project Greenaway, which consists of three films, the two books Tulse Luper in Turin and Tulse Luper in Venice, from 92 DVDs, multiple sites and CD -ROMs. This project, which was started in 2003, portrays Tulse Luper, a 1911 -born Welsh, on the basis of 92 attributed to him suitcases and their contents. Each case contains an object that is in any way "the world represent " is. The number 92 is an allusion to the atomic number of the element uranium; also in earlier works Greenaway has the number 92 already used as a structural element. Tulse appears as author, project makers and staff of Greenaway, whereby the boundaries between reality and fiction are blurred sometimes. Another factory defining element is the metaphor "prison": The novel describes how Tulse repeatedly comes into his life in prisons.

In the three films, the unusual, experimental design is striking, which gives the whole the impression of a visual encyclopedia. It is the project as a work of the independent film genre consider, it has characteristics of postmodern art on.

Online Game

There is now an online game via Tulse Luper. Here you have three different places to open various suitcases, behind which there is each a game. With the moment of registration do you start at one of three places, which is then available for the video sequences obtained per completed game. Can be obtained, one of three sequences, however, only the same part. The other parts can be acquired through trade from other players in the community - exchange or purchase. Currently, the game is not yet complete, it 's not all 92 cases available. It always come back add new suitcase. The cases are also impossible to achieve in any place, then you have to travel each to the other places to play missing suitcase.