Peter Greenaway Movies

A television documentary about John Cage and his music.

Five hundred years after his birth, the life and career of the Italian Renaissance's last great painter is explored.

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

Between 1795 and 1801, 306 drowned people were recovered from the Seine river, near Paris. Peter Greenaway propouns a historical approach were 25...

A writer, realising his last big adventure will very likely be death, takes a sabbatical and leaves his home in New York City’s Little Italy to...

A grim-looking leftist march of young men, edited to the Beatles’ Revolution.

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway about Phillip Glass that is a recording of a performance of the...

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...

An audiovisual work by Philip Glass and Peter Greenaway.

A numerical journey through the quaint village of Goole.

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

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,...

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

In this previously unseen backstage documentary, Peter Greenaway responds with great generosity to the open-ended questions posed by an off-camera...

Greenaway's virtually unseen first film is described by the director as "a work of juvenalia" shot in four London cemeteries, focusing on "church...

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

Dutch composer Louis Andriessen collaborates with director Peter Greenaway on a commissioned short film to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the...

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

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