"Peter Greenaway's 'The Tulse Luper Suitcase' is encyclopedic in its scope and will result in four two-hour feature films, a book, 52 TV programs and several CD-ROMs. It concerns the life of one man - Tulse Luper, a writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons all over the world. The story covers some sixty years of the Twentieth Century from 1928, with the discovery of Uranium, up to 1989 and the break of the Berlin Wall at the end of the Cold War."

A few years ago I was very excited about this massive multimedia project, but after the official website seemed to fall out of maintenance some time back, it was assumed the project had collapsed under its own scope and was placed on the shelf. Just today I received an e-mail form an associate of Mr. Greenaway's with news that the project is still active and a book has just been released. "Tulse Luper in Turin" is a collection of drawings and paintings by Greenaway, as well as an unpublished screenplay. The website for the book has all the info you need on this installment of the very mysterious project about a very mysterious character.

This inspired some further digging, and after a long drought of information, there is now a lot of buzz about the project again. Two good places to look are Kasander Films, and this very informative fan site. Shooting of the first of now three films: THE MOAB STORY, started on the 12th of June 2002 in Barcelona. All three films are scheduled for festival releases during 2003.