Movies: Peter Greenaway

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

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

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

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...

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....

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...

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 ...

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

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

Searching for the roots of Peter Greenaway in his films, this artful documentary begins with a workshop from 1991 in which Peter Greenaway discusses his film career, from his early short Revolution (1968) to The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lo...

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

Greenaway's profile of one of Savile Row’s best regarded tailoring establishments, Kilgour, French & Stanbury, placing Britain at the helm of cutting-edge style. The brand became synonymous with the world’s best dressed men including Cary Grant and F...

A narrator relates a variety of peculiar stories involving characters with the initials HC and their dealings with telephones. These are interspersed with artistic shots of telephone boxes in a variety of locations....

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...

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...

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

A film by Peter Greenaway...

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 ...

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