Movies: 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 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 short film 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...

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

At the age of 18, stunt cyclist Eddie Kidd had already broken world records, been a stunt double for Harrison Ford and released a couple of singles. Yet this profile piece for the COI cinemagazine series “This Week in Britain” offers glimpses that hi...

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...

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

Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch prophesies the events of 1492, the start of the modern world....

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....

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

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

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...

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

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....

A film by 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....

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

A promotional film advertising a British tie dye expert’s book in the 60s when it was the fashion....