Movies: Peter Greenaway

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

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

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....

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 '...

A numerical journey through the quaint village of Goole....

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Peter Greenaway presents this "Commentary in one hundred parts" on Drowning by Numbers (1987), discussing and analyzing many of the film's more intriguing features....

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

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

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....

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...

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...

The European Showerbath is a short film directed by Peter Greenaway for the DVD anthology collection Visions of Europe which was made in 2004 for the European Union....

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

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

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