Peter Greenaway Movies

A narrator relates a variety of peculiar stories involving characters with the initials HC and their dealings with telephones. These are interspersed...

The fascinations of filmmaker Peter Greenaway, whose motto is "art is life and life is art,"are captured like butterflies and arranged in an...

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

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

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...

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,...

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.

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

Gazing out at her garden, a woman recounts the tale of an exile from Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship, who settled in Felixstowe on...

"Rosa", with a libretto by Peter Greenaway and score by Louis Andriessen, is the first in a projected series of 10 operas, each dealing with the...

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

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway

A television documentary about John Cage and his music.

A film by Peter Greenaway

An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the...

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

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

Told in the form of a mock documentary in 92 short parts, nineteen million people are left obsessed with birds and flight following a strange...

Filmed at Leeds Castle in Kent, this short documentary on Scottish cloth manufacturer Reid & Taylor's biennial fashion show extravaganza was produced...

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