Movies: Peter Greenaway

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....

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

An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the mysterious Tulse Luper and the keeper of the bird house at the Amsterdam Zoo....

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

Vertical Features Remake is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt to assemble raw footage taken by ornithologist Tulse Luper into a short film, in accordance with his n...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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....

A film by Peter Greenaway...

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....

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...

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

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

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...

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