Movies: Peter Greenaway

  • 1982
    The Pledge

    The Pledge (1982)

    The Pledge

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    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....

    The Pledge
  • 1971
    Erosion

    Erosion (1971)

    Erosion

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    A film by Peter Greenaway...

    Erosion
  • 2013
    3x3D

    3x3D (2013)

    3x3D

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    A triptych of short stereoscopic films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard and Edgar Pêra. Includes "The Three Disasters" by Godard, "Cinesapiens" by Pêra and "Just in Time" by Greenaway....

    3x3D
  • 1989
    Hubert Bals Handshake

    Hubert Bals Handshake (1989)

    Hubert Bals Handshake

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

    Hubert Bals Handshake
  • 1981
    Zandra Rhodes

    Zandra Rhodes (1981)

    Zandra Rhodes

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    Commissioned by the COI, Peter Greenaway made a biographical short film about fashion designer Zandra Rhodes....

    Zandra Rhodes
  • 1991
    M Is for Man, Music and Mozart

    M Is for Man, Music and Mozart (1991)

    M Is for Man, Music and Mozart

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    Dutch composer Louis Andriessen collaborates with director Peter Greenaway on a commissioned short film to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Mozart. Gods create Man, Music and Mozart....

    M Is for Man, Music and Mozart
  • 2004
    Close to Greenaway

    Close to Greenaway (2004)

    Close to Greenaway

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    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, for the first time we get close to the unique vision of the controversial Welsh director Peter Greenawa...

    Close to Greenaway
  • 1983
    Four American Composers: Philip Glass

    Four American Composers: Philip Glass (1983)

    Four American Composers: Philip Glass

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    A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway about Phillip Glass that is a recording of a performance of the Phillip Glass Ensemble in 1983 with interviews that go in depth of his style and music theory of his ...

    Four American Composers: Philip Glass
  • 1966
    Tree

    Tree (1966)

    Tree

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    An early short film by the renowned filmmaker and painter Peter Greenaway...

    Tree
  • 1999
    The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama

    The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama (1999)

    The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama

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    "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 death of a famous composer - some real, others fictional. "Rosa" falls into the latter category; it tells...

    The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama
  • 1980
    Act of God

    Act of God (1980)

    Act of God

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    Documentary film by Peter Greenaway made for Thames Television, in which people who have survived being struck by lightning relate their experiences against a typically Greenaway backdrop of lists, black humour and 'collated statistics'....

    Act of God
  • 2021
    Hotel Royalty Since 1887

    Hotel Royalty Since 1887 (2021)

    Hotel Royalty Since 1887

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    Peter Greenaway's short film for Raffles Hotel. “The new campaign is designed to reinterpret the golden age of travel, with each vignette emulating a painting, layered with saturated colours and textures that feel exotic and daring, yet also familiar...

    Hotel Royalty Since 1887
  • 1996
    In the Dark

    In the Dark (1996)

    In the Dark

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    A film as part of the Spellbound installation at the Hayward Gallery in 1996 by Peter Greenaway....

    In the Dark
  • 1962
    Death of Sentiment

    Death of Sentiment (1962)

    Death of Sentiment

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    Greenaway's virtually unseen first film is described by the director as "a work of juvenalia" shot in four London cemeteries, focusing on "church yard furniture, crosses, flying angels, [and] typography on grave stones," with the occasional painting ...

    Death of Sentiment
  • 1983
    Four American Composers: Meredith Monk

    Four American Composers: Meredith Monk (1983)

    Four American Composers: Meredith Monk

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

    Four American Composers: Meredith Monk
  • 2017
    Luther and His Legacy

    Luther and His Legacy (2017)

    Luther and His Legacy

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    A personal essay on the legacy of Martin Luther on the basis of 16th-Century drawings and paintings where the director draws parallels with today's communication explosion/distribution of "news" and the necessity to be digitally literate....

    Luther and His Legacy
  • 1981
    The Exile

    The Exile (1981)

    The Exile

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    Like plants, people can either thrive or wither when removed from their native soil, as this short film explores....

    The Exile
  • 1966
    Train

    Train (1966)

    Train

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    A mechanical ballet composed of footage of the last steam trains arriving to the Waterloo Station...

    Train
  • 1984
    Making a Splash

    Making a Splash (1984)

    Making a Splash

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    Film which explores the relationship of man to water, his mastery of the fear of drowning and accomplishments in swimming....

    Making a Splash
  • 1992
    Rosa

    Rosa (1992)

    Rosa

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    A short film based on the work of choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker....

    Rosa