Movies: Peter Greenaway

In this previously unseen backstage documentary, Peter Greenaway responds with great generosity to the open-ended questions posed by an off-camera Gideon Bachmann about the process which led to the creation of one his most important films, The Belly...

With more than 50 years of experience as film director, Peter Greenaway (Nightwatching, Eisenstein in Guanajuato) combines the worlds of film and opera at the Verdi Festival in Parma, demonstrating what magic those two can do together with an all new...

Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch prophesies the events of 1492, the start of the modern world....

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

Peter Greenaway discussing a variety of topics, with each segment ranging in length from 6s to 2m47s....

A short film which has its emphasis on back street walls with peeling posters and the constant pedestrian traffic in the foreground. It has a static camera positioned in front of the walls; experimental editing techniques, no dialogue-just background...

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

A short film by Peter Greenaway. It depicts the painting The Wedding Feast at Cana by Paolo Veronese, through mixed media and shows different perspectives....

Multifarious images of a lake are overlaid with water effects and a narrated history of the campaigns fought by the fictional water-wracket army....

Very surprisingly from 1945 to 1989 - there have been 2201 atomic bombs dropped on the planet Earth - an astonishing number of atomic bombs implying huge destruction and fall-out. The film shows evidence of every bomb explosion documented with the na...

An early work by Peter Greenaway showing ports as diverse as Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Goole, London or Newport....

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

A television documentary about John Cage and his music....

A short ironic film about a missing nail in the iconography of Christ and his depiction in da Vinci’s painting of The Last Supper....

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

Between 1795 and 1801, 306 drowned people were recovered from the Seine river, near Paris. Peter Greenaway propouns a historical approach were 25 significant cases of drownings are catalogued, dissected and elaborated, with multilayered visuals and '...

The film comprises one hundred sequences showing a location in the city of Geneva, Switzerland. In 1994, over a period of one hundred days, one hundred white wooden staircases were installed around the city to be climbed by the public. At the top of ...

A short film by Peter Greenaway....

A revisionist biopic on Charles Darwin, illustrated via 18 tableaux covering details from Darwin's birth, his defining voyage on the HMS Beagle, the publication of his seminal Theory of Evolution and his ultimate death and consequent burial at Westmi...

An audiovisual work by Philip Glass and Peter Greenaway....