Welsh film-maker, artist and
painter Peter Greenaway said Friday he will produce a
multi-media project dedicated to "Agrippa, the right-hand man
and brother-in-law of the Emperor Augustus".
Greenaway made the announcement at the Festival of Memory
at the Virtual Museum at Herculaneum, an event staged under the
auspices of the Universal Cultural Forum.
"I went to Herculaneum first when I was 21," the director
said.
"I was fascinated by the power that these ruins have to
recount history".
"For me history does not exist, only the historians who
recount it and in their accounts there always is an element of
falsehood.
"Aggripa has always fascinated me because in an era in
which there was a great struggle for power, he chose, and in
some way accepted, to live in the shadow of the Emperor
Augustus.
"In my story, which will be recounted with a film, an
exhibit, a performance and a website, I will make Agrippa die at
Pompeii," Greenaway said.
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