Peter Greenaway Movies

A film made for the Central Office of Information concerning Britain's coastline, with music by Michael Nyman.

A short made for TV with director Peter Greenaway discussing the dazzling 3.5 minute opening sequence from his film, 'Prospero's Books'. As Prospero...

Calligraphy on water. The first joint work of director Peter Greenaway and composer David Lang.

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway.

Greenaway's short documentary shows 26 bathrooms, each representing a letter of the alphabet.

Between 1795 and 1801, 306 drowned people were recovered from the Seine river, near Paris. Peter Greenaway propouns a historical approach were 25...

The fascinations of filmmaker Peter Greenaway, whose motto is "art is life and life is art,"are captured like butterflies and arranged in an...

An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the...

Close to Greenaway takes us behind the scenes of the first part of the trilogy The Tulse Luper's Suitcases in Barcelona and Almeria. In this film,...

A grim-looking leftist march of young men, edited to the Beatles’ Revolution.

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway about Phillip Glass that is a recording of a performance of the...

"Rosa", with a libretto by Peter Greenaway and score by Louis Andriessen, is the first in a projected series of 10 operas, each dealing with the...

Very surprisingly from 1945 to 1989 - there have been 2201 atomic bombs dropped on the planet Earth - an astonishing number of atomic bombs implying...

The vulgar gangster Roquey van Smacker extorts and blackmails in order to get what he wants, but when he kills his girlfriend who is beloved by the...

A sort of documentary on the people known to have fallen out of windows in a certain time frame in a certain geographical location. One of...

Peter Greenaway remembers his first meeting with Rotterdam Film Festival director Hubert Bals.

Ostensibly, a film about a child's pictorial alphabet stuck on the letter H.

Searching for the roots of Peter Greenaway in his films, this artful documentary begins with a workshop from 1991 in which Peter Greenaway discusses...

Three criminals pledge to free the soul of their friend from his gibbeted corpse in this short film based on 'The Highwayman' by Lord Dunsany.

An audiovisual work by Philip Glass and Peter Greenaway.