Movies: Peter Greenaway

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 (John Gielgud) walks through his library, Greenaway comments on the historical, mythological, biblica...

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...

Fashions and pageantry put fabrics to the fore in this COI cinemagazine story filmed at Leeds Castle in Kent....

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

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

The fascinations of filmmaker Peter Greenaway, whose motto is "art is life and life is art,"are captured like butterflies and arranged in an alphabet, a form that suits him perfectly as an encyclopedist. In intimate conversations with his perceptive ...

The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp continues telling the picaresque adventures through the world of multi-disciplinary artist and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. This movie premiered at the Venice Film Festival as a separate title located between ...

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

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....

A film by Peter Greenaway...

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'....

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...

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 members of his own band, they plan to take revenge....

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

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

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....

A short film by Peter Greenaway....

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

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