The Tulse Luper Suitcases - Films / DVDs

Films / DVDs

Three films: The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story The Tulse Luper Suitcases,Part 2: Vaux to the Sea The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish were released in 2003, although they were shown out of order, with Part 1 shown in 2003, Part 3 in early 2004 and Part 2 in summer 2004. Part 1 was entered into the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.

All three were initially released only on DVDs made in Spain to provide "back-story material" for the designers working on the online site's "suitcases", chosen from submissions in a contest held in 2004. The trilogy was later released as a box set in Australia in 2008. There are also two books, Tulse Luper in Turin and Tulse Luper in Venice, published in 2004, for the same purpose.

In 2005, after the winner of the online game finished a free trip following the travels of Luper, an additional "final" feature, A Life In Suitcases (subtitled "The Tulse Luper Journey") was released.

While it was claimed that it would "largely be a condensation of material from the first three films" it is a complete film on its own, based on or an exact duplicate of the film players assemble in the online game. There is also some contention in the related online forums as to whether or not the first "winner" of the game is a real person, and really won a free trip, as was written up in a blog as it progressed.